Compost tea formula please?
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Kunapjala is a right word, it is Sanskrit, Kunapa meanse corpose and Jala meanse water, however there are bad smelling fertilizers used by anciant Indians. I need those methods.
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kunapa, or kuNapa, means fertilizer, not compost.
I just put about 1/5 vol. organic compost, fill remainder with water, and let sit overnight, then stir each day before using the resultant tea at 1:5 dilution.
My compost is leaves, coffee grounds, grass clippings, and kitchen waste. Its not that stinky. I think kuNapajala in ancient India would most likely have been some sort of cow byproduct.
You can bbuy manure that has been "deodorized" and use it by itself or add anything else that would be in a compost pile. I'd let it steep for a few days before use. You don't want to use so much that you have mud, but really just soupy dark water.
I take about a yard of cheesecloth and fill it with compost and tie the ends up and wrap a string around it. Then I soak it in a barrel of tepid temp water.like a big tea bag, when the "tea" looks right, like a light to medium brown, it's ready. I suppose that the ratio would be somewhere around 1:10.
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