Question for Captain or Anyone

tommyr · Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 53 Location: Breckenridge,TEXAS

I need lots of compost fairly quick. Buying it at 4.00 a bag is expensive. My question is if take hay like alfalfa or peanut, run it through a chipper-shredder, add some cow manure and dried molasses, will this make a good compost?

Dchall_San_Antonio · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 2011 Location: San Antonio,TEXAS

If you need lots quickly, I suggest going with compost tea. You can stretch your 1 cubic foot of compost into enough tea to cover 37,000 square feet.

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tommyr · Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 53 Location: Breckenridge,TEXAS

David, probably a dumb question but is there a such of thing as applying too much compost tea?

Dchall_San_Antonio · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 2011 Location: San Antonio,TEXAS

There doesn't seem to be. I suppose you could wash away your soil :shock:

tommyr · Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 53 Location: Breckenridge,TEXAS

Yea, I need to keep my soil, God quit making that a long time ago.

CaptainCompostAL · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 876 Location: Irondale,Alabama

I use gallons of diluted aerobic tea brews sometimes 2-3 times a week, during the hottest summer months on all my heavy feeders like sweet, okra, and elephant ears.

I apply it mostly as a foliar/soil drench using a mere cup or bottle and a bucket, all over my garden beds and lawn.