Compost Recipes
Submitted by James Beard
Horticulturalist, Fox Valley Technical College
Bacterial Tea (turf, flower beds, and gardens)
1 ½ cups compost or worm castings
¼ cup kelp meal
2 oz blackstrap molasses
2 oz fruit juice (apple)
¼ cup chopped feed hay
1 oz fish emulsion
Fungal Tea (shrubs and trees)
1 ½ cups fungal compost (leaf mold)
2 oz liquid humates
2 oz blackstrap molasses
1 oz yucca extract
2 oz fish hydrolysates ( fish emulsion will work)
¼ cup kelp meal
¼ cup chopped feed hay