Recipes for Natural Organic Gardening

[Sondra]

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Garlic/Pepper Tea
liquefy 2 bulbs of garlic and 2 hot peppersin a bleander 1/3 full of water.  Strain the solids and add enought waer he garlic/pepper juice to make 1 gal. concentrate.  Use 1/4 cup of concentrate per gal of water for the spray.  add 2 ounces of citrus oil for each gal of spay.  To make just garlic tea omit the pepper and add another clove of garlic.
citrus oil is orange oil. 

[K-Ro]

Take an old dry cow patty (yes old dry - fresh doesn't work as well), put it in 5 gallon bucket of water and let sit for a week or two.  Makes a great 'tea' for your roses, or any other blooming plant.  Works well with veggies too.

Put egg shells in bucket of water with lid, let stand for a couple weeks use as a tea.  You will have plants blooming, you didn't know would bloom.

[catdance62]

K-Rom when you say "tea", do you spray it on, or just water the plants with it?

[K-Ro]

I have always just watered my plants with it.   

[Narrow Chance]

Oh.. I had forgotten about the patty tea.  My mother used to do that to all her potted plants.  How well I remember her doing it.  She had the boys gather a couple of buckets.. back then it was called a 'foot tub' of patties.. then use the rain water from the wooden barrel in the eave of the porch. After a couple of days.. she used a water dipper.. one that was patched and discarded from the well... to dip a dipper and each pot got a dipper of patty tea. 
She grew the best flowers. 
I'll have to try that this year on my plants..
Thanks for mentioning it!!  It's so nice to have memories nudged from ya noggin!

[Sondra]

Recipe Manure Compost Tea:
Fill  a 5 -15 GAL BUCKET HALF FULL OF COMPOST (I use my gleaning from the stalls no hay in it  with lots of manure)  and finish filling with water.  Let the mix sit for 10-14 days and then dilute and spray on the foliage of all  plants including fruit trees, perennials, annuals, veg, roses, and other plants.  It's effective on black spots on roses and early blight on tomatoes.  How to dilute the dark compost tea before using depends on the compost used.  A rule of thumb is to dilute the leachate down to one parts compost liquid to four to ten parts water.  It should look llike iced tea.  Be sure to strain the solids out  you can use old panty hose, cheese clothe or row floating cover material.  Malcom Beck says fill the container full of compost, slowly add water, and use anytime after 36 hr.
 GARRETT JUICE (I use this all the time) which you can buy pre made or make your own.   
Per gallon of water  use 1 cup manure compost tea.  1 oz molassas, 1 oz natural apple cider vinegar, 1 oz liquid seaweed.  For added disease control at 1/4 cup garlic tea   ( I water everything at lease once a week with this mixure. )

[LostCreek]

okay...so the garlic/pepper tea... what is that used for?  to keep the bugs off of your plants?