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RE: [compost_tea] Hot (not warm) weather AACT considerations



Re Fungi and tilling.  I’m still trying to grasp this one.  By tilling soil we’re killing a lot of the fungi, I can understand that.  But in our composts, we are supposed to turn them to keep them aerated and to keep the temps from going too high and killing the b and f…

 

Is there not a conflict here? 

 

Doesn’t turning the compost then kill our fungi too?  What effect too, does putting them in a bubbling and turbulent brewer that bounces them about in their compost bags – they’re bounced around when we dig into the compost piles, then when we fill the bag, then when we place the bag in the barrel, then turn on the brewer, then they have to get out of the bag into the brew, then the pump to get them into the sprayer, ugh, the sprayer……..

 

Am I thinking about this too much?????

 

I’m finally getting some nice white strands in my compost (thanks to the seminar, I’ve made some major changes in my composting !!).  I’ve almost become friends with my new compost companions – thank goodness I have no neighbors close by to see me talking with my fungi -- I’m afraid to turn it and kill them. He’p me here!! I’ve become a (ok, more of) fanatic these days…

 

Mike

 

-----Original Message-----
From: soilfoodweb@aol.com [mailto:soilfoodweb@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:12 AM
To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Hot (not warm) weather AACT considerations

 

Right, you've recognized that fewer foods are needed in hot weather. 

But assume that your garden is lacking in fungi, not bacteria (you have been tilling?), so you still want to maximize fungi to the greatest extent possible.

So, activate the Wormgold compost by adding fresh compost (a handful, for example from a local source of good worm compost, or thermal compost), OR the activator sent by Wormgold (gfood foods for fungi AND bacteria in there).

Should see some good visible fungi in the compost coming up pretty soon.  Jeff Lowenfels has some great pictures of what you want to see.  So do the WormGold folks.  So does David Loring (Rincon - Vitova), and SFI has a few pictures on the website too. 

Just don't overload the tea with too much food when your temps are high!

Otherwise, I think you have it. 

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
SFI Corvallis, OR
SFI Port Jefferson, NY
SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
www.soilfoodweb.com


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