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Re: [compost_tea] Compost Tea for Potatoes
Compost tea is a water extract of compost (this does not include manure unless that manure has been composted!) which is brewed with foods that select for beneficial organism growth. In order to have all the kinds of organisms in the tea that were present in the compost, the tea must stay aerobic.
If tea goes anaerobic, then you lose the benefiical fungi, the beneficial protozoa and the beneficial nematodes. If you don't have these organisms, then you have lost most of the biological benefit of the compost, and it isn't compost tea anymore.
What would you call anaerobic tea? Putrefying organic matter tea? Anaerobic bacterial tea?
Can you allow something to go anaerobic, and then bring it back aerobic? Sure. The beneficial communities never return to the full range of diversity that you want in your soil, however. And when you go anaerobic, consider that you could be growing, oh, some really nasty Clostridium species. E. coli. Salmonella, Shigella, etc. Not good. Anaerobic is not a good idea.
What was your definition of compost tea before you started learning what it really is?
Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
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