I have recently started soaking OH's daily banana skin in a jam jar full of water. I then pour it onto a very hungry but floriferous hibiscus sinensis.
I'm about to try rhubarb tea as it's good for feeding potassium and as a pest control too - https://utopia.org/guide/rhubarb-leaves-uses/ Normally I just put the leaves on the compost heap.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Tea tea? My mother always put it on her hydrangea. But then we used to brew loose tea in a pot.
I can't be bothered with liquid extraction/fermentation or liquid feeding. The compost heap is good enough for me. It put my comphrey and alkanet on the heap with the rest. (I dry off the alkanet roots first. As I do with dandelions and docks.)
But aren't any leaves good enough? Some may be higher in this or that. And some like trees, comphrey and alkanet have deep roots that go looking for chemicals, which they bring to the surface.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I have used sheep manure pellets to make tea. They were very black and concentrated, plus the dog was too interested in eating them. The tea meant the shrubs enjoyed them, not her.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I watched a you tube video yesterday and the chap made a "tea" using chicken pellets and grass clippings steeped in water This is not the kind of tea you stew for two weeks, you make it as and when and use it fresh as it doesn't keep. This appealed to me as my OH would lose his mind if I kept something stinking in the garden for 2 weeks.
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I'm about to try rhubarb tea as it's good for feeding potassium and as a pest control too - https://utopia.org/guide/rhubarb-leaves-uses/ Normally I just put the leaves on the compost heap.
I can't be bothered with liquid extraction/fermentation or liquid feeding. The compost heap is good enough for me. It put my comphrey and alkanet on the heap with the rest. (I dry off the alkanet roots first. As I do with dandelions and docks.)
But aren't any leaves good enough? Some may be higher in this or that. And some like trees, comphrey and alkanet have deep roots that go looking for chemicals, which they bring to the surface.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
in water This is not the kind of tea you stew for two weeks, you make it as and when and use it fresh as it doesn't keep. This appealed to me as my OH would lose his mind if I kept something stinking in the garden for 2 weeks.