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RE: [compost_tea] Re: Soil Sampling
Kevin,
I agree with Ted's comments of leaving a part of the field unsprayed, and
wanted to add this concept of a "control" to my previous post. Without
some kind of a control you really can't say that your action (using the ACT) was
the cause of the good result. You really need to show that "doing nothing"
or "doing the conventional way" was worse.
Because this is not your property, because the field must be used by
others, and because the field must look good (or, somewhat uniform), I would
suggest you find hiding spots that you can leave as a control. You mark
them on your map. Another way is to place these hiding spots on the
fringes of the main area where they will not be seen.
John
Hello, Kevin.
Congratulations
on your baseball grounds maintenance contract.
I think your demonstration
will be most convincing if you leave part
of each field unsprayed, treating
it in the "conventional" way, or
alternatively, if you treat adjacent fields
with compost tea and with
a conventional approach. This will allow
side-by-side comparisons,
including soil analyses, at any point in time. As
long as everything
looks good at all sites, you'll only need to do your soil
tests at
one site.
The problem with treating everything with CT and
then sampling over
time is that things other than your CT treatments (such
as weather)
might affect your readings, making it difficult to make
convincing
comparisons between before and after readings.
Just my
two cents worth.
Good luck.
Ted Carey
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