[compost_tea] Re: Best Environmental Technologies?
Julie,
Thanks for the feedback.
I agree entirely. I also suspect it some kind of mix of molasses/humic acid=
/fulvic acid/liquid kelp.
I tried it a few years ago without any visible benefit. I suspect it gives =
visible benefit with soils that have been hammered by poor farming practice=
s, i.e., compacted soils with struggling microbiology. But if your soils ar=
e pretty good to start, then there is little benefit.
James
--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "firth_julie" <yilgarn_at_...> wrote:
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> Hi James,
> I live in Geraldton, Western Australia and went to a tm21 best seminar a =
year or so ago and I asked Martin Straper (the presenter and ex csiro scien=
tist) what was in it and he said " no micro-organisms, just food to stimula=
te them." The product is a black thin liquid, my guess is it possibly a mix=
of fulvic acid, molasses, kelp etc...
> The actual ingredients are their trade secrets I suppose, otherwise who w=
ould buy it when we can make our own..and they have to pay for their produc=
t, research, marketing etc.. somehow.
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> Whether it is produces any better results than a liquid bact/and or funga=
l food mix to your soil is something you would have to trial.
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> Hope this helps.
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> Kind regards
> Julie Firth
> Drylands Permaculture Research Farm
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