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Re: [compost_tea] Tilling and tea don't mix.
I like strip tillage a great deal. It leaves most of the soil intact, so you have a close source of the critters from which to allow colonization.
Sometimes tillage is needed - as when the soil gets to fungal to grow the plant you want to grow.
Often, the soil is too bacterial, and tillage is not a good idea.
Often, compaction is so severe that the organisms will have to have a great deal of help in order to work the soil and open up the air passages to allow air back in. Tillage, followed by getting the biology going again, is more rapid in this condition than adding the organisms without tillage and hoping they can break up the hardpan, or compaction, without disturbance.
Talk to Tom Jaszewski about the soil in the lions and tigers cages at the Mirage in Las Vegas!
Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
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