Hi Mike,
Home-made compost, in my opinion, would always be
preferable to commercially available compost if the home-made compost were a
high quality compost. And it certainly sounds like your making a wonderful
compost! Go with it.....
I've wondered about using commercially made bagged
or even bulk compost in tea making. One would think that the bagged stuff would
be less microbially active because it is in a bag.....the compost has been
denied air, for how long, starving the organisms? And with commercially made
bulk compost, it is usually made with very few ingredients. For instance, here
you can get turkey litter compost, or cotton bur compost, or tree trimming
compost, etc. Wouldn't a compost made with fewer ingredients be less nutrionally
and microbially complete?
I would think that your compost, or any good
homemade compost, would be better because of the variety of materials that go
into the pile and the freshness of the compost when you use it.
Sounds like you need to get with Nehemiah and help
him put a pile together!
Steve Bridges
Kimas Tejas Nursery
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