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Understanding Compost Tea

Excerpts from BioCycle, Journal of Composting & Organics Recycling. October 2000, Page 71.

by Vicki H. Bess

"Compost tea is a readily available form of compost that will impact the plant more quickly than compost mixed into the soil...

"Compost teas are applied either to the soil or to the plant foliage. Those applied to the soil will move into the root zone and affect the rhizosphere of the plant. Nutrients carried in the tea will be used by the plant as well as the microorganisms in the soil. The microbes in the compost tea...[] have the opportunity to become a part of the soil and rhizosphere microbial ecology...

"A good quality compost will provide beneficial microorganisms and nutrients to the surface of the plant to assist the plant in disease suppression and nutrient availability."