Manure tea as organic fertilizer

[Sunny]

We have several chickens which from which we get our organic manure for our garden. It is easier to spread out the fertilizer if it is in liquid form. To do this, we place the manure in used nylon stockings and allow it to just hang with the filled end inside the bucket with water. After 3 days the mixture is ready to use. Just dilute it with two times the amount of water. For younger plants, increase the volume of plain water.

Has anyone tried this method? How did it work for you?

 

[Chuck]

We have several chickens which from which we get our organic manure for our garden. It is easier to spread out the fertilizer if it is in liquid form. To do this, we place the manure in used nylon stockings and allow it to just hang with the filled end inside the bucket with water. After 3 days the mixture is ready to use. Just dilute it with two times the amount of water. For younger plants, increase the volume of plain water.

Has anyone tried this method? How did it work for you?

We have several chickens which from which we get our organic manure for our garden. It is easier to spread out the fertilizer if it is in liquid form. To do this, we place the manure in used nylon stockings and allow it to just hang with the filled end inside the bucket with water. After 3 days the mixture is ready to use. Just dilute it with two times the amount of water. For younger plants, increase the volume of plain water.

Has anyone tried this method? How did it work for you?

That, in gardening terms is called leachate. What you are making is anaerobic manure tea. If you want to make it many times more effective add a couple of handfulls of compost into the stocking and pump air through an aquarium pump with an airstone into a 5 gallon bucket of water. Add about 2 oz of molasses and let it perk for 2 or 3 days. The aeration or oxygenation of the water will greatly enhance the numbers of micro organisms which are necessary for the uptake of nutrients into your plants than will just dissolving or leaching the manure into water

 

[headfullofbees]

Do as Chuck tells you...

Not only will you muliply the potential goodness by about SIXTEEN times, but potential problems with anaerobic mixes are ruled out.

Two points:
1) You can buy battery operated aquarium pumps, so you don't need an electrical supply to hand.
2) If you use tap water, you should allow it to stand for a day to dechlorinate before you add anything to it.

 

[R.R.]

Does any kind of pump work? I don't know much about pumps, and they just asked me if I want an internal pump, a hang on back pump...and I have no idea.

 

[headfullofbees]

An aquarium air pump oxygenates the water. It must be an air pump.

 

[R.R.]

I'll get a cheap one from eBay

 

[Chuck]

I'll get a cheap one from eBay

You can probably get it all cheaper at WalMart if there is one of those Super stores close by. The closest one to me is 30 miles and that is why I buy most of my stuff of Ebay

 

[Little1]

We have several chickens which from which we get our organic manure for our garden. It is easier to spread out the fertilizer if it is in liquid form. To do this, we place the manure in used nylon stockings and allow it to just hang with the filled end inside the bucket with water. After 3 days the mixture is ready to use. Just dilute it with two times the amount of water. For younger plants, increase the volume of plain water.

Has anyone tried this method? How did it work for you?

I have done the same thing but with horse manure. I was under the impression that chicken manure was too "hot" to do this with. It does not burn your plants when you use it? I believe a mix of composted manure used in a tea gives a great boost to the vegetables in our garden but I've always let the chicken manure compost for months before I attempt to use it so I find your post very interesting. Do you notice a surge in your plants after you use it?

 

[Chuck]

I have done the same thing but with horse manure. I was under the impression that chicken manure was too "hot" to do this with. It does not burn your plants when you use it? I believe a mix of composted manure used in a tea gives a great boost to the vegetables in our garden but I've always let the chicken manure compost for months before I attempt to use it so I find your post very interesting. Do you notice a surge in your plants after you use it?

It is best to let any manure be completely dry. And yes chicken manure is hot and is best diluted as the original poster said. You will have a much more well rounded tea if you also have composted plant material in the mix. Also by aerating your tea you will grow huge numbers of micro organisms needed to allow plants to uptake nutrients. Also by adding a couple of ounces of molasses you greatly enhance those numbers as well. If you don't aerate your tea it will be void of oxygen and nothing lives without oxygen