- 1). Acquire chicken manure. If you keep your own chickens, you can collect it fresh. Otherwise, contact a local poultry farm or farm that keeps chickens. Each chicken will produce approximately 50 gallons of manure per year, so even if the farm makes its own manure tea, it will more than likely have plenty of manure to spare.
- 2). Using your shovel, fill each burlap/grain sack approximately 3/4 full with the manure. Add a rock or a brick, and then tie the sack closed with a short length of rope.
- 3). Place each filled sack inside a trash can or bin. Make sure that you've placed the bin where you won't mind it standing for awhile. It will become too heavy after filling to move.
- 4). Fill each trash can/bin with water. The sack, weighed down with the rock or brick, should not float.
- 5). Cover, and let each can "brew" for approximately three weeks. The water will infuse with the nitrogen and mineral from the chicken manure. Stir periodically with the long stick.
- 6). After three weeks, water your plants with your chicken manure tea. Pour the tea at the base of the plants rather than down over the top .
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