Hi Elaine
> Let's re-visit the BBC Lab study one last time>
> And that study is a case of not-doing-tea-correctly.
I agree and deliberate too I would think
> If you don't see elevated brix, maybe it is just because the plant had the
> nutrients it needed, and was completely healthy.
Or that you didnt supply what the crop was looking for at that time? If we
still need to spray compost tea on a weekly basis to keep bugs and disease
out of the crop is that completely healthy?
>
> Which would blow the whole brix-being-elevated-is-a-good-thing concept.
Carey Reams, Dan Skow,Arden Andersen,Phil Wheeler, Phil Callahan,a bunch of
others, all that work goes down the toilet in one flush. Sorry! I cant
accept that - regardless of what other scientists might say. The Reams
argument makes too much sense to me, it fits with what I have observed over
30 years of farming (ok so I'm a slow learner but I got the message in the
end), and I have seen this stuff working on my farm and a couple of others
growing biologically.
You are always saying test, tests and more tests, send samples to the lab, -
here we have a simple means of testing A PART of the activity of compost
tea, a simple instrument,anybody can use, nil cost per test after the
purchase, - we dont get a brix increase from straight tea every time - so?
we can check to see that we aren't pushing brix down, we can fortify the tea
with other stuff to get a brix increase (you've talked about adding stuff
like fish to the tea before spraying out). At our choice, based on a test
thats accepted by many of the top eco farmers and advisers.
> I know I have things to learn, but could I wait until next month
I appreciate your replies but there's no hurry, and you may be interested I
have Jack and Michelle Wendell visiting for a few days later this week, they
put out almost 100000gal of tea last season - pretty good first effort eh!
Cheers
Lloyd Charles
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Received on Mon Dec 02 2002 - 17:43:23 EST