Best types of fermented weed tea – find the one to suit your needs

types of weedy tea

Weed tea, prepared by simply fermenting weeds in a pail, is excellent to treat plants against diseases. Here are the different types of weed tea and their uses.

Each often doubles as a very nourishing fertilizer. Each weed or plant has compounds that produce different results.

These are the main fermented teas and decoctions for:

  • Effectively fighting most garden and vegetable patch diseases.
  • Fertilizing with essential nutrients that plants need to grow.

Fermented stinging nettle tea

Nettle leaves for weed teaThis is one of the most common, since it serves to fight pests and can also be used to fertilize soil thanks to its high organic matter content.

  • Nettle enhances plant immune system response, which helps sprayed plants fight downy mildew, powdery mildew, or rust off. Note that fermented stinging nettle tea cannot cure these once the disease is there.
  • Excellent aphid repellent
  • Very effective natural treatment for tomato

Discover the technique on how to prepare fermented stinging nettle tea.

Fermented rhubarb tea

The advantage of this fermented tea is that it is ready to use within 24 hours.

  • Fights against allium leaf-mining flies
  • Excellent aphid repellent

Here is the technique to prepare fermented rhubarb tea.

Garlic decoction

This is an excellent way to fight the spread of most fungus, especially in the vegetable patch.

  • It enhances plant immune system response, which helps sprayed plants fight downy mildew, European brown rot (rotting fruit), rust or peach leaf curl. Note that garlic decoctions cannot cure these once the disease is there.
  • It is likewise effective against aphidsthrips and certain mites and ticks.

Here are the steps to prepare a garlic decoction.

Fermented comfrey tea

This is possibly the fermented tea that most organic farmers use. Comfrey indeed contains very high levels of both potassium and nitrogen, which boosts plant growth for all plants in the vegetable patch.

  • Use when watering all the plants in both garden and vegetable patch.

Here is the process to prepare fermented comfrey tea.

Fermented horsetail tea

This tea is a powerful defense against fungus-related diseases, especially on fruit trees.

  • It enhances plant immune system response, which helps sprayed plants fight downy mildew, European brown rot (rotting fruit), rust or peach leaf curl. Note that fermented horsetail tea cannot cure these once the disease is there.

Here is the process to prepare fermented horsetail tea.

Why and how does fermented weed tea work?

Weed tea goes through a process that other fertilizers don’t: fermentation. In a nutshell, yeasts break the plant material down very effectively – and they add their own products to the mix, too!

Weed tea thus doesn’t only rely on the special nutrients and compounds of the plant itself. It also pack in the work and nutrients of yeast as it does its work fermenting.

Which weeds grow in your area that you use to make fermented tea?

Comment below if a local weed is a true hassle for you – there are chances it’ll make an excellent weed tea!

Smart tip about preparing fermented weed tea

Combine weeds to multiply their benefits. Feel free to add whatever you have at hand to the pot!


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