EcoTea for greenhouses
EcoTea for horticulture and ornamental plant production is creating the healthiest plants, cost effectively, by using biology.
What is EcoTea?
EcoTea is a specialized liquid biological amendment created from the highest quality ingredients. It is a living liquid teeming with trillions of microorganisms in every gallon that breathe oxygen, and are beneficial to plants and soil.
Organic approved by Pro-Cert
EcoTea is an organic amendment for any horticulture and landscape operation. Superior ingredients, manufacturing and screening equipment ensures EcoTea is always consistent and high quality.
Reduce inputs
EcoTea has an established reputation among some of Canada’s finest properties and greenhouse producers. EcoTea is helping to create the healthiest soil conditions which help to reduce water, nutrients and pesticide use.
EcoTea is a 3-part system
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Eco-Tea lncoulum: This product is built using a cold water extraction of the worlds best worm castings and biological preparations. By concentrating the microbes in a dormant state we can increase shelf life and provide farmers with a consistent, predictable and professional product.
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Eco-Tea Microbial Foods: This product is awater-soluble complex carbon and mineral source engineered specifically for the growth and development of plant-growth promoting microbes (found in Eco-Tea™ lnoculum).
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Eco-Tea Catalyst: This product is a water-soluble simple and complex carbohydrate blend built to accelerate the growth of microbes in soil. It is engineered to support the accelerated growth of bacteria and fungi in Eco-Tea™ concentrate.
Della Popowitch, Head Gardener at Riding Mountain National Park explains her use of Eco-Tea and the incredible results she is seeing in this heritage garden.
Tree applications
SPRING
Apply EcoTea Mix’n’Go at a rate of 2 L per tree to stimulate root growth and plant health.
FALL/TRANSPLANT
Apply Eco-Tea™ Mix’n’Go at a rate of 2 L per acre to help with hardening off.
Soil blending applications
Use Activated Eco-Tea™ at a rate of 1% by volume into potting soil mix for best results.
Foliar applications
Use EcoTea at a rate of 10 gallons per acre once a month to help prevent disease and provide trace nutrition through foliar stomata.
Why EcoTea?
High quality, aerobic compost tea is made from diverse sources of composts and other natural ingredients. The “brewer” extracts the beneficial microbes from these composts etc., and with the addition of food sources for the microbes to grow on, these microbes will multiply many times over. Oxygen levels are maintained at a high level to ensure that only beneficial aerobic microbes reproduce and grow.
These beneficial microbes have a variety of jobs including:
In the soil:
- Breaking down crop residues, reducing sites that over-winter disease
- Attacking disease organisms
- Fixing nitrogen
- Releasing soil nutrients
- Adding organic matter back into soil as they build humus
On the leaves:
- Protect leaf surfaces
- Symbiotic relationship with leaves – (they feed each other)
By adding these beneficial microbes back into the soil and onto the leaves, you are replenishing this invisible army, so it can go to work for you.
Create healthy soil
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