Foley's Tea

Ann's beds are full of nettles and I explained to her how to make a Foley's Tea for her 
veggies and flowers. To make one yourself take a 5 gallon or larger bucket and and stuff
it full of stinging nettle greens, comfrey, compost or manure. (Any one of these will 
work great, I personally just use nettles and have never used manure).

Cover the green material with very hot but not boiling water. Set you bucket in the sun 
and leave it for at least a week. The resulting tea is very high in nutrients for you 
plants. Cut the tea with water...say 10 parts water to every one part tea and water your
plants with this during seasons of change such as rapid growth, bloom or setting fruits.
(house plants love this tea as well) Don't over water tomato plants with it...maybe 
three to four times a season. Tomato plants will take to just soaking up good stuff, 
growing foliage and will never set fruit if they are over fertilized. However they do 
get great benefits from this tea by doing it a few times a season. (Tomatoes love high 
acid soil so used coffee grounds are great sprinkled around the plants as well).

This tea stinks though. To high heaven. The nettle tea reeks. So when I use it I spray 
my plants in the late evening when most people around me are inside and by morning the 
smell is gone. If one neighbor peeks over the fence to see what the smell is I wave my 
hand in the general direction of another neighbors house, shrug my shoulders and 
continue what I am doing... LOL.

Melana Hiatt