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here's one recipe that I use often ... I do not dilute it and use it neat .... I do not use a bag for the ingredients ... I add them directly to the water ... I use 2 airstones ... a large cylindrical one, and a large 8 inch flat round one which sits on the bottom of the bucket:

5 gallon (25 litre) plastic (food grade bucket) ... £15 (I use a beer making bucket)

45 litres/minute aquarium piston airpump ... £35

aquarium heater ... £8

2 airstones and plastic pump tubing ... £8

total for the above is approx £66 ... no need to buy the expensive kits for $500 ... it soes the exact same .... the pump is the main thing ... make sure that for a 5 gallon bucket, the pump delivers at least 45 litres of air/minute

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25 litres of vermicompost (worm humus) ... £10

1 litre of advanced nutrients iguana juice grow ... £20

10kg verve volcanic rockdust (£5.98 from B&Q)

3kg bucket of bat guano ... £13

1 litre of biobizz fishmix ... £10

1 litre of biobizz Alg-A-Mic (algae and seaweed extract) ... £9.99

1 large bottle of organic pure black strap molasses (unsulphured) ... £4

forest or garden topsoil or homemade compost .... for free

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add 20 litres of rainwater or tapwater to the bucket .... let the airstones bubble and set the heater to 20 degrees C ... let it bubble for 12 hours (to remove the chlorine if using tapwater), and to bring the temp to 20 degrees C ... if your tap water has chloramide, you will have to use the stuff that they use for aquariums to get rid of that ... rainwater, R/O, or pond water is the best

to make the tea, add:

3 heaped tablespoons of molasses

6 cups of vermicompost

6 cups of forest/garden topsoil (or homemade compost)

1 tablespoon of bat guano

5 heaped tablespoons of volcanic rock dust

let it bubble for 24 hours .... then, add 80ml of iguana juice grow, 80ml of biobizz fishmix and 80ml of biobizz Alg-A-Mic

switch off the airpump/heater and place the 'brew' in a watering can and use that as a soil drench and foliar feed on your plants/veg (dont put it in a sprayer as you may kill the fungi/bacteria)

use it as soon as possible, as when you switch of the air, the beneficial fungi/bacteria start dying .... I have read that you must use it within 2 hrs

smell the brew before adding the fish/algae/iguana juice.... if it smells rotten, dispose of it (it should smell like good compost/topsoil)

thats the best stuff that you can use .... you can experement and add additional additives such as alfalfa, humic acid etc etc (iguana juice has humic and fulvic acid)

the sludge that is left in the bucket is used as a mulch/topdressing around your prized plants

use this every 2 weeks during the growing season ...