Re: [compost_tea] Re: Basic Questions
Tent caterpillars - I'll have to ask the New York lab if they have dealt with
this problem before, but I would expect either Beauveria (Mycotrol, talk to
Bruce Elliott about getting some, bruce_at_fish-world.com) or getting a set of
highly-offensive-to-insects bacteria sprayed on the trees. Try the SP-1
bacterial inoculum from Agri-Energy, or the beneficial spore-former inoculum
from Holmes Environmental (holmesenviron_at_attbi.com)
CT with a great set of fungi will stop cedar apple rust . Try using worm
compost with the inoculum of Alaska Humus added in, humic acid or fish
hydrolysate, and kelp.
Fish hydrolysate is liquified fish - bones and all liquified. NOT fish
emulsion, which is bacterial food.
Ferric citrate should be available from wither the garden store or the animal
feed store.
Elaine Ingham
> We have ~100 heritage apples and pear, plum, cherry, walnut, filbert,
> oak trees on one acre of wild meadow. We have sprayed dormant oil every
> year and I'm going to have trouble getting my husband to stop because of
> TENT CATERPILLARS. We occasionally add lime sulfur for CEDAR APPLE
> RUST. Our orchard is surrounded with cedar trees. Will CT do it? How
> many applications would we have to make?
>
> Brew with kelp, humic acid, fish hydrolysate (one ounce each) and a
> coupledrops of ferric citrate (reduces E. coli).
>
> Is fish hydrolysate just fish fertilizer that you make into a spray?
> Where do I ask for ferric citrate--at a garden supply or at the feed
> store where I can get trace minerals?
>
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