Compost teas in agriculture

Compost tea offers the benefit of adding nutrients, suppressing diseases and destroying greymold and damping off, to organic farmers and gardeners. Researchers believe that microbials in compost teas produce toxins attacking the early blight fungus. The addition of straw mulch to cow manure and yard compost teas may help in effective chemical control of early blight. The effectiveness of tea may change with the aging of the compost. The water has to be separated from the compost. Ardeo, Inc. has manufactured a device for growing microbes.