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Aerated Compost Tea Kits For Sale UK
BugBrewer Aerated Compost Tea Brewing Kits
We are able to provide two sizes of Aerated Compost Tea brewers, We call them - The Allotment Brewer, and The Smallholding Brewer.
The Allotment Brewer
This kit is suitable for people with large gardens, or up to three allotments. The kit consists of an air pump, airline, compressed air tubing, air delivery nozzles, and a nylon 400 micron filter, for holding compost.
The Allotment Brewer kit is designed to be used in a container of up to 80 litres, but is best suited to an Aerated Compost Tea brew of 50-60 litres. The ideal container is a smooth sided, plastic dustbin. I use one made by Ward, which is sold in the gardening section of Wilkinsons, for about £8. The smooth sides are to reduce the build up of potentially anaerobic slime, and therefore make cleaning easier.
Instructions, recipes, and suppliers of nutrients are supplied with each kit.
You will need to provide your own compost, and purchase your own nutrients. (see below)
The Smallholding Brewer
This kit is suitable for smallholders, and market gardeners. The kit consists of an air pump, airline, compressed air tubing, air delivery nozzles, and a nylon 400 micron filter, for holding compost.
The Allotment brewer kit is designed to be used in a container of up to 210 litres, but is best suited to an Aerated Compost Tea brew of about 150 litres. The ideal container is a smooth sided water butt. These can be bought for about £20. The smooth sides are to reduce the build up of potentially anaerobic slime, and therefore make cleaning easier. Instructions, recipes, and suppliers of nutrients are supplied with each kit.
You will need to provide your own compost, and purchase your own nutrients. (see below)
Which kit is best for you?
If you have a small garden, then you are better off making your own Bucket Bubbler. There is a link on the BugBrewer site, which will take you to an article that describes the process. We would be happy to sell you one of our kits, but it would probably be more than you would need.
For really large sites, then the Smallholding Brewer works well. I have a 4 acre Smallholding, and it is ample for my needs. However, I have found that having two of the Allotment kits, gives me more flexibility than the larger kit. I can either have a fungal, and a bacterial brew running at the same time, or I can keep up a continuous (staggered batches) supply of Aerated Compost Tea. This was particularly useful during the Blight season last year.
For most sites, the Allotment Brewer is the one to choose. 50 litres of Compost Tea goes a very long way when diluted, and applied as a foliar spray, and it is ample for sowing large batches of seed, and as a soil drench.
If in doubt about anything, please just ask...
Nutrients
Most suppliers of Aerated Compost Tea brewers will supply compost, and the nutrients needed to make Compost Tea with the kit. They may also supply the nutrients on their own. At Bugbrewer we recognise that although this is potentially quite lucrative, people are not stupid, and will see through this. By the time that we charge our customers for re-packaging nutrients, and for postage, it would be cheaper for them to buy their own. If anybody is desperate for us to include nutrients with their kit, please contact us with your requirements, and we will get back to you with the cost.
Testing
The contributors to the compost_tea forum, and Dr Ingham, suggest that makers of Aerated Compost Tea brewers, send samples to their laboratories for testing, to ensure that the brew contains adequate numbers of microbes. This testing costs over £200, and we would need to send a sample of each type of brew, for each brewer. This would result in a cost in the region of £1600. This cost would then have to be passed on to customers. The only laboratory in this country, Laverstoke Park, has just closed. We decided not to spend that money. Instead, I tested, both brewers on my own crops. I also recruited a prominent member of the Lincolnshire Organic Gardeners Organisation (LOGO), to test the different mixes. I was excited by the results, and my tester was so impressed that he wrote an article about Compost Tea for the LOGO newsletter, and I have been asked to give presentation to their members in April (2009). To me, the results obtained out in the field, are more convincing than a study made under a microscope.
Prices
The Allotment Brewer will be on sale in April 2009, at £85 plus postage.
The Smallholding Brewer will be on sale in April 2009, at £180 plus poatage.
We are able to provide two sizes of Aerated Compost Tea brewers, We call them - The Allotment Brewer, and The Smallholding Brewer.
The Allotment Brewer
This kit is suitable for people with large gardens, or up to three allotments. The kit consists of an air pump, airline, compressed air tubing, air delivery nozzles, and a nylon 400 micron filter, for holding compost.
The Allotment Brewer kit is designed to be used in a container of up to 80 litres, but is best suited to an Aerated Compost Tea brew of 50-60 litres. The ideal container is a smooth sided, plastic dustbin. I use one made by Ward, which is sold in the gardening section of Wilkinsons, for about £8. The smooth sides are to reduce the build up of potentially anaerobic slime, and therefore make cleaning easier.
Instructions, recipes, and suppliers of nutrients are supplied with each kit.
You will need to provide your own compost, and purchase your own nutrients. (see below)
The Smallholding Brewer
This kit is suitable for smallholders, and market gardeners. The kit consists of an air pump, airline, compressed air tubing, air delivery nozzles, and a nylon 400 micron filter, for holding compost.
The Allotment brewer kit is designed to be used in a container of up to 210 litres, but is best suited to an Aerated Compost Tea brew of about 150 litres. The ideal container is a smooth sided water butt. These can be bought for about £20. The smooth sides are to reduce the build up of potentially anaerobic slime, and therefore make cleaning easier. Instructions, recipes, and suppliers of nutrients are supplied with each kit.
You will need to provide your own compost, and purchase your own nutrients. (see below)
Which kit is best for you?
If you have a small garden, then you are better off making your own Bucket Bubbler. There is a link on the BugBrewer site, which will take you to an article that describes the process. We would be happy to sell you one of our kits, but it would probably be more than you would need.
For really large sites, then the Smallholding Brewer works well. I have a 4 acre Smallholding, and it is ample for my needs. However, I have found that having two of the Allotment kits, gives me more flexibility than the larger kit. I can either have a fungal, and a bacterial brew running at the same time, or I can keep up a continuous (staggered batches) supply of Aerated Compost Tea. This was particularly useful during the Blight season last year.
For most sites, the Allotment Brewer is the one to choose. 50 litres of Compost Tea goes a very long way when diluted, and applied as a foliar spray, and it is ample for sowing large batches of seed, and as a soil drench.
If in doubt about anything, please just ask...
Nutrients
Most suppliers of Aerated Compost Tea brewers will supply compost, and the nutrients needed to make Compost Tea with the kit. They may also supply the nutrients on their own. At Bugbrewer we recognise that although this is potentially quite lucrative, people are not stupid, and will see through this. By the time that we charge our customers for re-packaging nutrients, and for postage, it would be cheaper for them to buy their own. If anybody is desperate for us to include nutrients with their kit, please contact us with your requirements, and we will get back to you with the cost.
Testing
The contributors to the compost_tea forum, and Dr Ingham, suggest that makers of Aerated Compost Tea brewers, send samples to their laboratories for testing, to ensure that the brew contains adequate numbers of microbes. This testing costs over £200, and we would need to send a sample of each type of brew, for each brewer. This would result in a cost in the region of £1600. This cost would then have to be passed on to customers. The only laboratory in this country, Laverstoke Park, has just closed. We decided not to spend that money. Instead, I tested, both brewers on my own crops. I also recruited a prominent member of the Lincolnshire Organic Gardeners Organisation (LOGO), to test the different mixes. I was excited by the results, and my tester was so impressed that he wrote an article about Compost Tea for the LOGO newsletter, and I have been asked to give presentation to their members in April (2009). To me, the results obtained out in the field, are more convincing than a study made under a microscope.
Prices
The Allotment Brewer will be on sale in April 2009, at £85 plus postage.
The Smallholding Brewer will be on sale in April 2009, at £180 plus poatage.