Compost tea is nothing more than a large “tea bag” filled with finished compost steeped in water. This colorful compost is ready to be tucked into a bag (a pillowcase will work) to soak in water.

Compost works well as a soil amendment, but you can also use compost as a liquid fertilizer. When compost and water are steeped together, the resulting liquid is known as compost tea, an easy to apply ...

Growing your own tea garden at home can be a rewarding and enjoyable experience. It allows you to have fresh, flavorful ...

In a column last year, I offered the opinion that there needs to be more science and less hype about compost tea as a suppressor of disease. I also speculated that academic research on the material ...

It's that time of year again to see how some of gardening's new products fared under real-life testing in the Over the Garden Fence Horticultural Trial Laboratory (also known as My Back Yard). The ...

In a 1960s-era edition of Rodale’s “Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening,” the lengthy entry for compost reads like an ode to organic soil amendments: “Here in a dark and mouldy pile the wheel of life is ...

Aerated compost teas (ACTs) are organic products obtained by forced aeration of composts suspended in liquid phase. These products may be biological control tools alternative to synthetic fungicides, ...