Teas and Cellecting Rainwater

jerrytoo · April 23, 2013

Correction, Collecting Rainwater

New here so hope this is in the right forum,

I am moving into a new house and not sure yet what the soil in the garden area of the back yard is like yet. The garden will be mostly tomatoes, peppers, and few cucumbers, some herbs and spices. I do have about 200 lbs of cow manure compost from Lowe's to mix in and might buy more.

Has anyone ever tried making their own fish head tea, how much to dilute it down, and how well did it work?
Is it better than manure tea?
Are either as good as the store bought grow products?

I plan on doing a lot of fishing (bluegill, crappie, catfish) this spring and should have a lot of fish heads, guts, skins, bones, etc and all that I can talk the neighbors out of, so might as well try making tea from, repurpose, all that rich waste.

I will also try to locate a free source of aged barnyard manure, cattle, horse, whatever, from a local farmer or chicken grower and maybe not have to buy the store bought bagged manure and assuming, for tea, that the free stuff will be as good, maybe better, than the high dollar stuff for tea.

As far the teas, manure and fish head, how well does anyone think it would work to mix the two different kind of teas together?

How would using collected rainwater, roof runoff, be to just mix my tea in burlap bags or panty hose and hang over and submerge in one of the 55 gallon barrels and water with the home brew tea from that barrel one day a week, or so?
I should be able to easily hook up, cheaply plumb in some type of leaky, soaker type hoses, or PVC, from the tea barrel to each row in the garden.

Thanks ahead for any advice on the teas and rain barrel ideas.

April 23, 2013	#1
jerrytoo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: mississippi Posts: 4	Teas and Cellecting Rainwater Correction, Collecting Rainwater New here so hope this is in the right forum, I am moving into a new house and not sure yet what the soil in the garden area of the back yard is like yet. The garden will be mostly tomatoes, peppers, and few cucumbers, some herbs and spices. I do have about 200 lbs of cow manure compost from Lowe's to mix in and might buy more. Has anyone ever tried making their own fish head tea, how much to dilute it down, and how well did it work? Is it better than manure tea? Are either as good as the store bought grow products? I plan on doing a lot of fishing (bluegill, crappie, catfish) this spring and should have a lot of fish heads, guts, skins, bones, etc and all that I can talk the neighbors out of, so might as well try making tea from, repurpose, all that rich waste. I will also try to locate a free source of aged barnyard manure, cattle, horse, whatever, from a local farmer or chicken grower and maybe not have to buy the store bought bagged manure and assuming, for tea, that the free stuff will be as good, maybe better, than the high dollar stuff for tea. As far the teas, manure and fish head, how well does anyone think it would work to mix the two different kind of teas together? How would using collected rainwater, roof runoff, be to just mix my tea in burlap bags or panty hose and hang over and submerge in one of the 55 gallon barrels and water with the home brew tea from that barrel one day a week, or so? I should be able to easily hook up, cheaply plumb in some type of leaky, soaker type hoses, or PVC, from the tea barrel to each row in the garden. Thanks ahead for any advice on the teas and rain barrel ideas. Last edited by jerrytoo; April 23, 2013 at 09:16 AM.