How To Make Comfrey Tea for BioChar At The Next Level.

After our initial experiments of making comfrey tea on a small scale, the season has changed and the comfrey harvest is ready. The propagation of comfrey over winter in the high tunnel hoop house was super successful with over 40 plants taking root. We want to have 300litres on hand for the comfrey tea concentrate giving us 3000 litres for our garden and pastures.

[@terrywood3711]

Just a thought, run the Comfrey through the Lawnmower maybe more than once along with the Charcoal/Biochar and when decanting into whatever tilt the IBC back to let the sludge drain away (gravity is so cheap) from the outlet spiggot. When all liquid has been used mix the sludge with worm castings and compost and aerate in the same IBC, and then away we go again........... I cut the top out of mine to get access, and it's permanently mounted on an old trailer frame, and move the IBC to where the mixture is required. It raises laziness to an art !!!!!!!!!!! Always look forward to Fat Cow Farm and snatch a moment to have a looksee. Oh almost forgot, I run my Biochar through a Blender, a kitchen type I got off Ebay, a little Biochar goes such a long way then.

[@FatCowFarmTatong]

Thanks Terry, I love the simple concepts. Next time I'll run the leaves through the mulcher. Love it, thanks heaps! cheers

[@lesboucher542]

I was thinking of you the other day when I was watching a video on how they spread their comfrey tea/liquid fertiliser around their property. The people in the video were using a simple gravity feed system. An outlet, with a ball valve, from their IBC set up on a trailer to a "T" section which lead into a cross bar, the width of the trailer, with holes spaced along the bottom. It became a simple matter of pulling the trailer along and gravity did the rest as the "tea" was spread all over the paddock... no pumps needed.

[@FatCowFarmTatong]

Brilliant - thanks Les as always.

[@lesboucher542]

@@FatCowFarmTatong Taking this one step further, I was wondering if you shallow ripped the top of the soil, in line with the fluid outlet holes, would help with penetration deeper into the soil...... Much the same as your yeoman rips... Just a thought

[@brewsterly2927]

@@lesboucher542 Nah, the nozzles spray the tea over the lot and why disturb the soil structure when you don't have to.

[@lesboucher542]

@@brewsterly2927 True

[@Casey6996]

How much was that IBC I am looking for 2