How to make Kitchen scrap Emulsion

[thebahamiangardener]

Ok, I've used this recipe countless times for my plants . Here's the recipe.

Ingredients.

5 gallons of water
Molasses
1/6th cup of milk
Kitchen scraps ( e.g.: bananas, rotten tomatoes, old roses from a floral arrangements, plant leaves, onion skins, cucumber peelings citrus rinds etc.)


Add all ingredients to a pail of water mix well and let sit for 2 weeks. After two weeks use.If you want to avoid the smell stir daily or ad a bubbler as you would compost tea. But if it smells its no problem.

If you use this recipe be sure to post before and after pictures.

[rainbowgardener]

So if you add the bubbler it sounds like this is ACT... aerated compost tea.

Here's a thread that was going for a long time with lots of different ACT recipes:

https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=93002&highlight=act+recipe#93002

They mostly are water. compost/ composted manure, a variety of other organics for extra nutrients, molasses, and sometimes the milk.

I guess what you are telling us is that you can use pre-composted compost for the compost tea... I.e. you can just put your compost ingredients directly in the ACT mixture/process, without composting them first.

Since I've never done the whole compost tea thing, I will wait for someone else to comment on what difference it makes whether or not your compost your ingredients down first before you make tea out of them.

PS... interesting use of the poll, sort of like how on Facebook they have the Like button... 23 readers liked this comment

[thebahamiangardener]

Not really compost tea , cause the bubbler's just to prevent the stink of fermentation and in act the bubbler is necessary to feed the aerobic bacteria.Its similar to fish emulsion but with higher nitrogen and its using vegetable scraps.