Making Liquid Manure – Muck Tea

Simon Tetlow, deputy head gardener at the famous Tatton Park Gardens, shows how to make liquid manure fertiliser, aka muck tea in this video. The beauty of this method is that you get all the benefits of a liquid chemical fertiliser, organically.

It’s most commonly used with sheep muck but works well with any rotted manure – horse or cow.

As well as using rotted manure, this method can be used to produce a quick plant tonic from nettles. Whilst nettles are a real nuisance weed, the plant is actually wonderful for making compost or tea. All those stolen minerals from the ground.

Finally, you can make comfrey tea – there’s a lot of information on the main site about comfrey here: Growing & Using Comfrey