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Re: [compost_tea] Compost Tea for Potatoes



You are right that it is spendy to test each batch.  But test your first batch, at least, and see if you have the tea making thing down.  If you don't , at least we help you figure it out!  Bruce Elliott is outstanding at his customer service and is dogged in making sure each person succeeds.  Bruce would never leave a customer in the lurch.

Usually, if the first test wasn't really good, a second test just to make sure things are going well, and you're off and running.  Sometimes, something is really out-of-whack though, and we (ah, well, Bruce, really) work hard to figure out the problem.  Sometimes the water (really alkaline or acid water is a serious problem), sometimes too much food in the brewer (it helps to be able to READ the markings on the measuring cup), too cold water, poor compost, etc.

Let's see, potato recipe.  Usually, you are lacking fungi in the soil to an extreme degree, so you need a fungal recipe.  Not likely to get fungal dominated, but getting fungi above 20 ug per ml is the goal.  So, a tiny bit of molasses, some of Jeff Lowenfels' protein meal mix or Paul's flour mix (they are about the same, I think), kelp, and really good fungal compost. 

OK?

Elaine
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
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