Re: [compost_tea] Composting Council

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:04:36 EST

Yes! This is EXCELLENT! You will be talking about compost tea! Please set
people straight on the fact that we never see either Soil Soup or Growing
Solutions machines have adequate fungi in the tea.

They cannot get adequate disease suppression of hard-to-deal-with diseases
like mildew, anthracnose, Pythium, blight, etc.

Distributors of both Soil Soup and Growing Solutions have told clients that
compost tea can't grow fungi. Which is pure baloney, compost tea HAS TO have
fungi growing in it, and we have loads of data showing compost tea has plenty
of growing fungi.

It's not compost tea without active, living, growing fungi.

But neither Soil Soup nor Growing Solutions machines have fungi growing in
their final product. As a result, we've seen a number of failures with these
machines. Even if the heads of these companies won't admit there are
significant problems, there are cases of significant failures with their
teas.

So, please make sure that people at the USCC aware that Soil Soup and Growing
Solutions machines only make bacterial tea, not compost tea.

And I'd sure like an overview of what all went on at the meeting. Kirk will
be there, so you and he should touch base. Show Kirk a good time!!!!

Elaine
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com



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