July 17, 2025, 8:44 am | Read time: 2 minutes
A vegetable garden requires a lot of work—and even more love. For tomatoes, lettuce, and zucchini to grow healthily and yield a bountiful harvest, they need not only water and light but also a good nutrient supply. Many gardeners seek natural methods to strengthen their plants. A particularly simple and effective solution is homemade compost tea.
Compost tea is a natural liquid fertilizer made from mature compost. It provides plants with nutrients and promotes healthy soil life, all without chemicals. In times of sustainable gardening, it is gaining increasing importance. myHOMEBOOK gardening expert Franka Kruse-Gering explains in the video how to easily make compost tea yourself.
What You Need to Make Compost Tea
A few items are essential.
- 1 kilogram of compost soil
- 1 liter of rainwater
- 4 to 5 liters of rainwater for later dilution
- 2 buckets
- A stick for stirring
- Cloth for filtering
- Spray bottle (optional)
How to Make Compost Tea
- First, pour a liter of water into the bucket with the compost.
- The mixture should be placed in a sunny spot for about a week and stirred occasionally.
- After about a week, pour the tea through a sieve or cloth to separate it from the soil.
- When diluted with rainwater at a ratio of 1:5, it can be used for watering or sprayed on plants with a spray bottle.
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An Excellent Fertilizer
Compost tea is considered a real insider tip for those who want to naturally strengthen their plants and sustainably improve the soil. The liquid mixture of high-quality compost and water contains a variety of beneficial microorganisms that stimulate soil life, mobilize nutrients, and promote plant health.
Regularly applied, either in watering or as a spray solution on the leaves, the tea can improve growth, increase resistance to diseases, and make the use of chemical fertilizers unnecessary.