Before you start brewing your tea and showering your garden, it’s worth noting that if you use a municipal water source, you likely have chlorine in your water. It’s added to kill bacteria and keep the water clean, but this means it also kills good bacteria.
Always use dechlorinated water when brewing compost tea. I take it a step further and use dechlorinated water to drench my soil. After all, if I’m adding all these beneficial microbes to the soil, I certainly don’t want to kill them when I irrigate my garden.
I have the Boogie Blue Water Filter attached to three of the taps in my garden, so that all my hose water and drip irrigation water is dechlorinated. The water filter is included in this bundle with their Boogie Black and I highly recommend it.
To make actively aerated compost tea (AACT), you’ll need a 5-gallon bucket, a commercial-grade air pump (with an output of at least 45 liters per minute) with a set of air stones, and Boogie Brew Tea.
Start with a clean bucket; you don’t want any debris or old bacteria lingering in it. Fill it a couple of inches from the top with dechlorinated water.