Re: [compost_tea] Re: fish tank pumps

From: Chuck Barker <chuckiebtoo_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:27:33 -0800 (PST)

One pump just won't do it.  I use aquarium pumps too....3,4,or 5....de=
pending on the containers' sizes.  I somehow, in spite of the nay=
sayers who pooh-pooh my methods, make teas that my plants and soils re=
lish.  I've done test zones with and without treatment.  The resu=
lts are as plain as day.
 
Hint:  verticle brewing (taller, less diametered containers) maximize=
 oxygenation x?-fold depending on the heighth of the containers.=
 
 
BTW, I've not been here for a couple of weeks. WOW!  This place a=
in't never been this pumped up! 
 
Chuck

 

--- On Tue, 2/22/11, Anurag Kaushik <kaushikanu_at_yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Anurag Kaushik <kaushikanu_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Re: fish tank pumps
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 5:41 PM


 







I Start with one pump, I keep Adding 2 more after 12 hour when the micro-or=
ganisms are more active.

--- On Tue, 2/22/11, Jeff Lowenfels <jeff.lowenfels_at_gmail.com> wrote:


From: Jeff Lowenfels <jeff.lowenfels_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Re: fish tank pumps
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 3:35 PM


 

Elaine and others have since noted that the aquarium pumps don't supply ade=
quate oxygen…






Plant one row in your garden to feed the hungry. It is so easy and so neede=
d:  http://www.gardenwriters.org/gwa.php?p=par/index.html











      

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