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RE: [compost_tea] compost tea update



Hi Judi,

 

Thanks for the fruit tree post. 

 

Don’t be too excited on the pear slugs quite yet though.  I haven’t used tea on my trees and this too is the first year I haven’t had them chomping on the leaves (yet).  But I hope to hear it continue to work for you – and in a hope-for-ACT sick sort of way- I hope to get hit – that could mean progress.

 

I’m thinking that it might be a little too early for the slugs – don’t they just start climbing up into the trees about this time of year? I know it’s the fall season when the leaves really start to get eaten by them – here anyway (E. WA State).

 

Please keep me updated on your pear slugs as the season progresses.  I was planning on using teas to see if it controls my pear slug problem.  I’d think a soil drench (if ACT works against the pear slug) would work well – as that’s where they originate, in the ground at the base of the trees.

 

Thanks for the update. 

 

Mike

Ellensburg, WA

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Judi Stewart [mailto:js@olympus.net]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:49 AM
To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [compost_tea] compost tea update

 

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This is also the first year that I’ve used compost tea and it’s

also the first year I don’t have any pear slugs.  They’ve been in my

pear and cherry trees each previous year.  I applied the compost tea as

a soil drench.  I thought I’d use Surround on the pear trees this year

but changed my mind.

 

<snip>

 

Judi

 

 



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