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Re: [compost_tea] Simple CT maker



Thanks Steve - I passed that on!

Jason

Steve Bridges wrote:
The article in Taunton's is not obsolete. It is a great system for the person new to the idea of making compost tea. Sure you could use a bigger pump. And sure you could be concerned with the size of the bubbles. And then you could buy a DO meter, and a fine temp gauge, and a Brix tester, and on and on. But for the person just getting into aerobically active compost tea making, the simple set up described by Dr. Elaine is just fine!
 
Use a little bigger pump, play with inexpensive air stones, but let's not lose the play involved here. From what I've been told by Dr. Larry Zibilski at the USDA Weslaco Research Station (the only USDA approved organic research station), scientists have identified less than 5% of the total life in the soil.
 
Do not scare people away by all the science! It is good, it is needed, but let's not get carried away by all the data.
 
Nature knows no data. And we are nowhere close to unraveling the "DNA" of the soil........
 
Tell your sister to go with it and have fun...it is truly a learning process...
 
Steve Bridges
Kimas Tejas Nursery
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Austin
To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Simple CT maker

Hi Jeff

I encouraged my sister in New Zealand to make a small CT brewer using the Taunton's article as a model.  She bought the parts then the day she was ready to assemble you come out with this "obsolete" comment <groan!>

Now remember what your mother must have taught you, criticism alone is negative.  To be constructive, you must also show the person how to do it better!  <grin>   So how would you suggest a 5 gallon brewer be made?

Jason

Jeff Lowenfels wrote:
Re the article from Taunton's:   I think since that article was published that there has been a lot of research that make it "obsolete."  I started with "that" machine and several of my first ones were constructed using air stones and small pumps.
 
The problem is the size of the bubbles....may be too small and the inadequate air supply. It is a good place to start, but not to remain very long, IMHO!
 
Cheers,
 
Jeff L



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