Re: [compost_tea] basic questions
OK, unless you answer those questions, you'll get the complex, overwhelming
response again.
WHY are you using the lime sulphur? What is your purpose in putting it out?
To kill disease? To add calcium? To add S?
Lime sulphur will do harm to the organisms you have sprayed out with the lime
sulphur.
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With the Soil Soup, in order to get the benefit you are hoping to see, you
typically have to put out 100 gallons per acre. Otherwise you don't see the
protection you want to see. At least that has been my experience.
So, I don't think you want to buy 100 gallons of tea to spray out. So, make
yourself your own tea maker that will be of the same quality or better than
the Soil Soup machine. Buy three air stones, the tygon tubing to plug them
into a 25 gal aquarium pump. Glue the air stones to the bottom of a 5 gal
bucket.
If that seems like too much work, buy the KIS brewer. $125 for the whole
she-bang, and for a pump that will last as long as the aquarium pump, but
gives better air.
Get a knee-hi nylon stocking. Put half your pound of compost in the toe.
Tie the stocking halfway. Put the other half pound in the tied-off section,
tie the top. The stocking should float on the surface of the water.
Brew with kelp, humic acid, fish hydrolysate (one ounce each) and a couple
drops of ferric citrate (reduces E. coli).
OK? Higher fungi, you get enough tea to put on an acre of your land. If you
have just a few hundred feet to cover, then you get super-duper coverage.
Add your lime sulphur to the compost tea at the start if you think you really
need it, but I doubt you do if you make your own compost tea.
Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
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Received on Tue Dec 10 2002 - 21:45:43 EST
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