[compost_tea] Re: Best Environmental Technologies?
I was going to say; sounds like molasses before anyone mentioned this. Why =
pay for watered down molasses?
Tim
--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "jwoenne" <jrrwoenne_at_...> wrote:
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> Julie,
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> Thanks for the feedback.
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> I agree entirely. I also suspect it some kind of mix of molasses/humic ac=
id/fulvic acid/liquid kelp.
>
> I tried it a few years ago without any visible benefit. I suspect it give=
s visible benefit with soils that have been hammered by poor farming practi=
ces, i.e., compacted soils with struggling microbiology. But if your soils =
are pretty good to start, then there is little benefit.
>
> James
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>
> --- 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 sci=
entist) what was in it and he said " no micro-organisms, just food to stimu=
late them." The product is a black thin liquid, my guess is it possibly a m=
ix of fulvic acid, molasses, kelp etc...
> > The actual ingredients are their trade secrets I suppose, otherwise who=
would buy it when we can make our own..and they have to pay for their prod=
uct, research, marketing etc.. somehow.
> >
> > Whether it is produces any better results than a liquid bact/and or fun=
gal food mix to your soil is something you would have to trial.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Julie Firth
> > Drylands Permaculture Research Farm
> >
>
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