Best hot compost bins to shop in the UK to transform your food and garden waste

Compost tea, despite its name, is far from an ingestible substance. However, the hot, murky liquid does look remarkably similar to an English Breakfast brew before you add milk. Compost tea is merely named as such due to its colour, and the fact that it is brewed.

Historically, making a hearty compost tea – otherwise referred to as liquid fertilizer – would be quite the process. It is made by steeping compost in hot, clean water to extract all those wonderful nutrients and microorganisms that help plants grow healthier and faster. The steeping part is easy, but the process of composting is what takes buckets of time.

The speed at which compost, compost can take anywhere from two months to one year to be ready for use – depending on how finely you chop the ingredients which go on the compost heap, how hot it gets, how often you turn it, and the time of year.