I just squirt some good globs into a five gallon bucket of water and aerate for 24 hours. Ive only used it a handful of times and always in veg but it always greens everyone right up. Ive even been super lazy and shot globs of it in one of my 4x8 raised beds and just let it do its job during watering. Like just squirting it onto of the soil then watering. Bother worked well.