Are you using a tea bag? like panty hose? You could use a window screen to strain the tea. Or apply with a watering can, or the item below. I think most dilute the tea anyway, just to be able to spread evenly over the whole garden. I usually like to choose the least amount of work path.

Here is a link that might be useful: siphon

Based on the info I received......I just added about 1 gallon of compost to a 5 gallon pale of water and added molasses. Perhaps I missed the part about using a tea bag or screening.

Yep, my original instructions said:

You'll need to strain it into another bucket by pouring it through pantyhose or something similar. Just need small enough holes to catch the big chunks that would clog up your sprayer...

I made the same mistake the first time :)

I guess that leads me back to my original question.......will a Miracle Grow sprayer that attaches to my garden hose dilute the tea solution too much?

Nope, that'll work fine, and with a large lawn, it'll probably make it much quicker. Just make sure to clean it out well so that any residual chemicals don't harm the little microbes you're trying to spread.

If you screen the tea with something as fine as panty hose, are any of your fungi going to make it through there intact? If you use a hose end sprayer, you better not be using city water with chlorine/chloramine.

Good point subywu.

I am using city water.......so therefore will attaching my garden hose to the sprayer render the tea useless?

subywu
I felt compelled to respond to your comments,
Below is a link on making ACT, on page 3 Ingham mentions nylon stockings (isn't that the same as panty hose?) as a tea bag material. She would know better than anyone else I could think of. Bruce Deuley originally recommended a nylon paint strainer, I never found one, it might be a Texas thing.
Bacteria is reaaally small, fungi are larger, but to be fair, in this rather old article she seemed to be bent on producing bacterially dominated tea. I did not get the impression that the OP was using the ACT method, in that case it might be best to go back in time to revisit manure tea where burlap was preferred.
With the siphon system the micro critters are in the city water for only a second then propelled out the hose, I would like to think that isn't long enough to do serious damage. I am not sure about the Miracle sprayer, it might mix the tea with increasing amounts of city water in the plastic bottle until it is clear, in that case exposure is definitely longer. I admit I have thought about all this before, but I have no affordable way of determining an answer (no microscope nor the education to use one!), therefore every other ACT tea I use watering cans, being careful to dilute with rain water (which may be no bargain either). I admit I am lazy, the siphon is easier. I have had pump sprayers, but they never seem to last, who knows what damage they do to the micro critters?
In any case, if your garden isn't healthy, then change your ways; if it is, well then, no reason to change is there? I know that sounds simplistic, but there seems to be some amount of truth to it.

Here is a link that might be useful: compost tea

I was wondering about the use of city water w/ hose end sprayers. I'll need to apply my compost tea to my lawn area, too. It seems like the chlorine in the water would kill some of the benefials.

I am no microbiologist so I don't even know how chlorine kills the microbes. My concerns, involve the idea that the microbes may be swimming in droplets of water that may contain molecules of chlorine. Is it significant?

What does everyone put down to feed the bacteria and/or fungus once they take up residence in your lawn?

Oh boy.

Read this http://www.soilfoodweb.com/03_about_us/approach_pgs/a_01_benefits.html

Chlorine does kill microbes in the tap water otherwise we'd end up with all kinds of health problems. There are two types.... chlorine that is easy to get rid of by just pumping air in the air for 20 minutes and there chloramine that it's impossible to get rid of unless you have a specialized filter, I think reverse osmosis?. In the other world, buy filtered water from grocery stores.

The pump sprayer with the right nozzle assuming it is filtered out of small particles will work fine.

By the way, Dr Ingham isn't really into bacterial stuff since it is too easy to get enough of it right from the compost... it's the fungal, protozoa and nematodes that are significantly more difficult to produce enough population to make a difference...