Super Compost Tea
Components found in our Super Compost Tea transition your lawn to a true organic lawn instantly. Using this as a lawn winterizer will detoxify, aerate, dethatch, control insects, control weeds, supplement, and actually build healthy, living, soil ready for your total organic conversion next season.
What’s in it?
| Biological | Function |
| B. Subtilis | Plant growth promoting soil inoculant |
| Bacillus licheniformis | A bio-fertilizer |
| Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) | a naturally occurring bacterial disease of insects |
| Bacillus polymyxa | Growth Promoting, nitrogen fixing |
| Enzymes | Protein catalysts |
| Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM) | Improves drought resistance |
| Auxins | Growth hormones |
| Cytokinins | Growth hormones |
| Gibberellins | Growth hormones |
| Vitamin B | Growth Regulator |
| Amino acids | Function as chemical messengers and as intermediates in metabolism |
| Folic acids | Also known as vitamin B9 |
| Humic acid | Also known as liquid humus |
| Neem oil | Insect Controller |
| Garlic oil | Insect Controller |
| Fungi | Ectomycorrhizal fungi also have the potential to positively affect plant growth. Ectomycorrhizal fungi can change the growth form of plant roots by promoting root branching and restricting root extension. Ectomycorrhizal fungi can increase the uptake of phophorus by plant roots and some species of fungi also improve nitrogen uptake. They can decrease the susceptibility of the plant to disease and drought. |
| Fish Emulsion | Our Fish Emulsion is derived from ocean fish that feed on mineral rich plankton. The result is a 5-1-1 fertilizer loaded with Trace Minerals, Macro and Micro-nutrients. There are over forty supplements in our Fish Emulsion, such as iron, boron, zinc, calcium, manganese, vitamins B1, B2 to name just a few. Most of these are in a chelated form, meaning they are readily available to the plant or turf which increases plant brix levels. |
| Seaweed | Provides numerous trace elements and growth stimulants. Helps generate and feed soil building microbes. Adds both “Green” and “Brown” organic material. |
| Macro Nutrients | Function |
| Nitrogen | New, green growth |
| Phosphorus | Essential to turf grass root growth and vigorous growth overall |
| Potassium | Builds cells and tissue for more durable plants that are usually more tolerant of temperature extremes and are more pest- and disease-resistant |
| Organics | Function |
| Black strap sugar cane molasses | Food for microorganism colonies, brix value increaser |
| Complex corn sugars | Food for microorganism colonies, brix value increaser |
| Micro nutrients and trace elements | Function |
| Boron (B) | Facilitates nutrient uptake and it helps plants to grow new tissue |
| Calcium (Ca) | Promotes new root growth and facilitates overall plant vigor |
| Copper (Cu) | Contributes too many natural processes including plant metabolism and reproduction |
| Iron (Fe) | healthy, dark green growth, essential for photosynthesis and chlorophyll formation |
| Magnesium (Mg) | Allows food production thru photosynthesis, necessary for seed production |
| Manganese (Mn) | Necessary for chlorophyll formation |
| Molybdenum (Mo) | Grasses need molybdenum to produce essential proteins |
| Sulfur (S) | Creates essential proteins, produces dark green color, essential for nitrogen-fixing nodules, aids in the production proteins, amino acids, enzymes and vitamins, helps the plant’s resistance to disease, aids in growth, and in seed formation |
| Zinc (Zn) | Plants use zinc in conjunction with other elements to carry out many natural processes including forming chlorophyll. |
Nitrogen enters the soil in organic forms such as plant roots, leaves, and other plant materials, in addition to dead animals, insects, and microorganisms, manure, and compost. As these decompose, the once recognizable plant and animal materials are transformed into soil organic matter called humus which contains organic nitrogen. Living plants cannot use these organic forms of N. This is why microbes living in the soil are so important, because they convert organic N into forms of N that plants can then use.
There are typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil Bacteria are vital in recycling nutrients, and many important steps in nutrient cycles depend on bacteria, such as the fixation of nitrogen from the atmosphere. Beneficial bacteria and fungi are needed in the soil to make nutrients available to the plants. Bacteria occupy most of the leaf and/or root surface and thus are effective at consuming the food resource that the disease causing organisms would otherwise consume. In soil, bacteria have additional function beyond consuming; they also retain nutrients (N, P, S, Ca, Fe, etc.) in their bio-mass. Bacteria also decompose plant-toxic materials and plant residues and build soil structure. The smallest building blocks of soil structure are built by beneficial bacteria. Without these bacteria, the bricks to make the “soil house” will not occur and further development of soil structure will not happen. If the organisms are not present, water holding capacity cannot be improved. Most of the bacteria in the compost tea will not be the right ones at the moment you apply the tea, so they go to sleep in the soil, and wait for the right conditions that will allow them to wake up, suppress their competitors, retain nutrients, decompose residues and build soil aggregate structure.
As you apply these, immediately plant available, nutrients to the soil, they melt and drop into the top soil. If you ever dig in your yard you will notice that the roots really do not go down that far. Why would they? All of the nutrients are in the top 2 inches of soil. During times of low moisture and high heat, which is known around here as SUMMER, the roots do not penetrate far enough into the soil to be able to reach cooler wetter soils and suffer the consequences. Mechanical or “Core” aeration removes a 3” plug every 6 inches while our liquid aerator in the Tea penetrates several inches over 100% of the lawn. If you begin a program that encourages increased root mass and penetration into the soil you dramatically increase drought resistance and overall health for turf.
No complicated, expensive equipment to buy or rent. All you need is a garden hose. One quart has a 10,000 sq. ft. coverage.
Do-It-Yourself and save big.
One quart of Super Compost Tea packaged in a pre-calibrated dispenser has coverage of 10,000 sq. ft. Because it is 100% organic, you have ZERO chance of “burning” the turf.
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