Absolutely.
(1) 5-Gallon bucket
(2) 1-Fish Tank Air Pump -w- 3-leads going into the bucket
(3) Fill with water and pump air into it for about 3-4 hours.
Pumping air into the Bucket removes all the chlorine, which can
(Chlorine) kill the good bacteria that plants just love to eat, YUM!
(4) I add about 3 garden spade scoops of natural compost:
Then add 1 scoop of manure compost:
Then add 3-4 tablespoons of molasses to the mixture.
Allow the mixture to do it's thang for 24-48 hours,
depending on the heat index. 3 days max, or it'll spoil.
I add it to my plant water every 2-Weeks to fertilize them.
For Corn?, Well, you just add cheap fish, or canned pollock for only 24-hours.
This year I'm growing over 600 Vegi plants because, well, it's fun.
And who says you can't have two full-time jobs? It's a labor of love,
Just like Children, and danm_good_old_school_Cookin.
/God Bless
Thank you, a very interesting method of making the tea.
I like your pump idea and reasoning, sounds right to me.
It is good that I never got around to filling a big barrel and dumping in the manure, afraid I would have had a stinking mess.
Here we can buy a ‘cooler pump’ that wets the pads on our evaporative coolers, they cost about $30., it always seemed that they should have a use in a fertilizer/tea barrel, they use about a quarter inch pipe/hose, and push the water to the top of the pads.
The indians are said to have buried a fish and then planted above it.
We were not a fishing family, but any that I got, I buried in the garden.
Spring at last.