Lakeweed, banana peels, potato peels, molasses and earthworm castings.

I dislike the idea of having to purchase bloom booster, and I was wondering if you could use banana peels, potato peels, lakeweed, earthworm castings, and molasses to make a compost tea to accomplish the same thing. As I can generally get these things without too much expense or come about from normal living anyway.

And I hope no one mentions bat guano, that would be buying something.

wristychronicles said:

http://www.the-organic-gardener.com/Comfrey.html

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Big +1 on that.

Cheap. ~$2/cutting from Horizon Herbs and forever. They overwinter quite nicely.

My worms love them, but they grow faster than the worms can eat. With 6 plants, 125-150lbs of harvest is easy. Seems like the more you cut them, the faster they grow.

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Nander said:

I dislike the idea of having to purchase bloom booster, and I was wondering if you could use banana peels, potato peels, lakeweed, earthworm castings, and molasses to make a compost tea to accomplish the same thing. As I can generally get these things without too much expense or come about from normal living anyway.

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You're on the right path. I'm assuming you already found out that Banana peels are high in K and have some P and that the potato peels are high P, but you can't just grind them up and add them to your tea. Are you familiar with worm-composting?

With worm-composting, the compost retains more of the NPK of the original material added to it, so in theory you should be able to make a high PK compost for a flower booster and a high N compost for veg. I've actually been in the process of doing this for awhile now and I just harvested the first big batch of my veg compost so I'm going to start a journal after the weekend. My PK compost should be done by the time they are ready to flip.

I've got a list of the NPK values of all kinds of organic materials and food scraps if you want it.