Re: [compost_tea] Re: Fwd: compost tea applications - persistance
Thanks again, Elaine. People probably do what they know is right. The better they know it the harder it is to modify the pattern. Prime example - religion. People are killing the world over something they have no proof of. Re- learn? Haven't in centuries. Bob
soilfoodweb_at_aol.com wrote:Hi Bob -
If only the Growing Solutions and Soil Soup people would get their heads on straight, the world of compost tea could forge ahead faster. But we have to bring the recalcitrant along with the rest of us. We waste time having to educate them, over and over.
And if anyone doesn't believe that they have been harmful to the world of compost tea, just look at what Growing Solutions did with the work with BBC Labs. We could have avoided all that frou-ha-ha with the Compost Task Force if the OMRI recommendation had just been followed from the very beginning.
Sigh. Can their ignorance harm the rest of us? Very clearly, yes. Would there be less likelihood of harm if they would communicate with the rest of the world of compost tea before doing stupid and ignorant things on their own? Very clearly, yes.
How do we get them to stop messing things up? I'm open to any suggestions that the rest of the community would like to make.
Garden writers - historically, is there a way to shut down people like this? What are the steps involved? How can you help us make sure that people who don't want to have any standards imposed on them, because their sales might be hurt, see the light of reason, and start communicating with the rest of the world before they mess up again?
Anyway, back to the rest of Bob's question. Green cover crops through the winter supply a source of food, as do the residues of harvested plants, for soil microbes.
Active, growing bacterial-dominated plants help bacteria while fungal-dominated plants help fungi.
When these questions were being discussed one sharp gal suggested
that over the eons native soils were reported by the expert(ELAINE)
to be generally very rich in microbes. Therefore microbes must
normally prosper in natural soil on native plants. But there needs
to be plants and roots to complete the soildfoodweb for the mocrobes
to persist. Am I on the right track? Passionately, Bob
The particular set of microbes that the particular plant needs will be benefitted. and their residues must remain as foods to get the microbes through the winter.
When we plow and till soil, we cause bacteria to bloom, and burn off those organic residues much more rapidly, leading to bacterial dominated soils, and loss of organic matter. This has been documented over and over and over in agriculture. Plow too much, lose organic matter, lose soil fertility and the soil life that maintains fertility. To return fertility to the soil, you have to have the right organisms, the right foods and maintain the habitat right for the plants you want to grow.
Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
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