Reintroducing microbeasties to sterilized soil...

I sterilized the soil mix that I intend(ed) to transplant my baby into outside on the grill with some water in it. The mix if anyone is curious is about 3 parts homemade compost to 1 part Jiffy Organic Seed Starting Mix. Quite meager from what I have read that alot of you are using but unfortunately I can only get my hands on so much... also, aside from monetary issues I am not sure how much of what I order online would pass through customs but once again I digress.

Anyhow, I have some sterile soil now and was wondering how to go about reintroducing those good ol' microbeasties that I love and keep hearing so much about. Cheap and or commonly found items are a definite bonus.

Molasses and beer perhaps?

Should I just start over and use some unsterile compost?...
Any help is much appreciated, and thank you in advance.

Do a soil drench with compost tea.
You can also inoculate the soil with mychorrizae spores. Fox Farm "peace of mind" fertilizers and epsoma bio-starter fertilizers both contain microorganisms (bacteria and fungi).

My light soil-mix is sterile to begin with, so I add some of this for funghi:



and this for bacteria:

Thanks for the replies. I will try the compost tea as that is readily available and wouldn't take at least a month to get here. At least I got most of the bugs out of the soil dumping a couple in with the compost tea shouldn't be too bad I think.

GhostRaven said:

I have some sterile soil now and was wondering how to go about reintroducing those good ol' microbeasties that I love and keep hearing so much about. Cheap and or commonly found items are a definite bonus.

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GhostRaven.... The compost tea is the best way to go. It will cost you nothing but a little time and will provide many beneficial bacteria & fungi.
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Also worm castings topdressed or mixed into the soil works wonders. See the thread on Vermicomposting for additional info on how easy it it to keep a worm bin. The end results " Black Gold " are well worth the effort. Here is a link to that thread:
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https://www.rollitup.org/organics/93881-vermicomposting-thing-consider.html
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Hope this helps...
Keep it Real...Organic....
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Made a little tea with some compost and added some molasses for good measure (I hope that was okay), let it bubble for about a day and a half and drenched my soil with it. The soil is drying out right now as I had completely saturated it. Hopefully it will be good and alive by the time I transplant which should be around friday. Thanks again!