What to do with compost juice?

Hi All, I have a rotary composter that seems to be working very well. I am collecting the thick dark brown sludgy juice that drips from the tumbler & storing it in a watering can.

What I would like to know is whether I should dilute this before pouring onto my plants? :confused:

 

I have a wormery and dilute the juice from that at 10 - 1 after which the colour should be like weak tea. It's a brilliant liquid plant feed.

 

THanks Blackthorn, can I then use it on all my plants?

 

Yes - you should dilute it. In its concentrated form it will store much longer than the diluted form. The RHS recommendation for comfrey concentrate (for example)is a dilution of 1 part concentrate to 10 or 20 parts water. So that gives a huge margin of error. Personally, I would dilute it until it looked like weak tea as Blackthorn says. Nettles are good as ingredients too. It is fantastic stuff and your plants will love you for it. Feed it to them from a watering can in spring and summer. You can overdo it and then you get oversoft lush growth that is prone to disease.
So use it carefully and give plain water sometimes instead. Good luck!

 

So I need to store it until Spring really then?

 

Well if you use it now it is not going to feed any plant because they are more or less dormant. That lovely juice will just wash away in the winter rains.