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RE: [compost_tea]



I’ve been using Azomite for years in my own fertilizer mixtures and also

as an anti-caking agent in poultry feed.  I believe the bulk of

Growing Solutions’ nutrient mix for compost tea to be Azomite.

They are also the west coast distributor.

Azomite Mineral Powder: This powdery mineral supplement, containing montmorillonite clay and many other compounds, comes from an ancient seabed. It is an excellent source of silica, calcium, magnesium and the gamut of trace minerals. Clay also has detoxifying effects as the negatively charged clay particles attract positively charged pathogens and take them out of the body. Technically sold as an anticaking compound and available only in 40-pound bags, Azomite is incredibly cheap when used as a mineral supplement, costing less than one dollar per pound delivered. Take a heaping teaspoon mixed with water daily as an insurance of adequate macro- and trace mineral ingestion in these days of soil depletion through intensive farming. …from the Western A. Price Foundation

http://www.azomite.com/

Judi

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Loring [mailto:dloring3@cox.net]
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003 8:07 AM
To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [compost_tea]

 

Chris - The Active Fungi in my first two teas were3.54 and 2.68ug/ml and Total Fungi was 3.73 and 4.95ug/ml. I added the pretreated Greenways mulch (used a 20oz.disposable clear plastic food container with a half dozen vent holes drilled in the lid, filling it with the slightly moist mulch product which was recommended by SFI as a mulch with good diversity of materials and without toxic components, added 2oz. fish hydrolysate and mixed it together.  It was not wet, just moist).  I pretreat in a styrofoam egg incubator costing $30 set at 85*F.  When I included the pretreated mulch the fungal numbers were quite high, Active 37.5 and Total 56.11.  The Hyphal Diameter went from 2.5 to 3um.  I have not been able to consistantly achieve this high number and only suggest pretreatment as a way to develop a fungal tea.  I'm still looking for better ways to get the fungi in vermicompost growing faster and think Azomite might be part of the solution as it adds growing surfaces and nutrients.

 

Dave Sotillo 50

 

 



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