Compost Extract Tea

Extend your compost by making it into a liquid fertilizer tea.

Here’s your Quick, Home-made Recipe

Revised April 30, 2026

This is a microbe/mineral-rich tea for your plants & soil when

…you do not have time or equipment to do a “24 hr bubble brew” of actively aerated compost tea,

…or when you only have a little compost and a lot of crops to feed.

It’s quick, but rich with microbes, dissolved minerals, and microbe foods. I call it Enhanced Compost Extract Tea.  

You’ll need

• a clean 5-gallon bucket

• 4 gallons of de-chlorinated or un-chlorinated water 

• compost—mature worm castings, or finished and high-quality pile compost

• a “tea bag” by using a 1-gallon paint strainer bag or similar cloth or mesh—or skip the bag and stain the finished compost tea later.

• a form of sugar

• Maxicrop soluble seaweed powder Available HERE

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Make a batch every 2 weeks & apply.  Now…for more plant nutrition, consider using this with Fish the Flats, Fish the Crops‍ ‍and High Brix Tea recipes. Use remaining solids as a mulch.

Packets with instructions HERE