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Re: [compost_tea] Potato Nutrients for Optimization



Put the sulpomag in the compost, and once composted, use to make tea.

Add kelp to the tea, or rock flour, or dust, but match the mineral needs of the plant to the additive you put in the tea, so you give the plant what it needs.

Work by Arden Anderson suggests that mineral nutrients added to the compost will REDUCE the total amount you have to add, because addition of mineral nutrient to not-fully healthy soil (which is why your plant lacks the nutrients it needs, the life in the soil is not balanced for the plant trying to grow) means ON AVERAGE 80% of that nutrient will leach. 

So, instead of causing ground water problems, add the mineral to the compost, at about 80% LESS than the soil chem report suggests, and the biology will cycle the nutrient to the plant in a plant available form.

Obviously, this is cutting edge info, the scientific studies have just barely been started, all at the "observation" stage.

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
SFI Australia
SFI New York
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SFI New Zealand

"Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out."   --  Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic


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