Re: [compost_tea] Re: Wormgold tea makers

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:43:31 EST

Could we all try to use these words (or versions of this) in describing why
compost tea will reduce disease organisms?



These are the benefits that you can expect IF you return a healthy food web
to your soil.

1. Out-compete disease organisms - make certain there is a lack of food for
disease organisms because these foods are eaten by beneficial organisms.
Infection sites are all occupied by beneficial organisms, and therefore the
disease organisms cannot gind a way to infect the plant. All surfaces are
protected. This is NOT a pesticide effect. There are no toxic chemicals
involved. Pesticides can be deleted if you return the beneficial organisms
to your soil and leaf surfaces. Stop killing the beneficials with chemicals,
keep them alive, and enhance their growth.

Note that we are talking about anything that enhances the soil foodweb having
at least in part a "cat versus mouse" comtrol impoact. The EPA clearly
states that cat - mouse interactions are "mechanical control methods." If we
make that claim for tea, then we area long way toward an exemption for
compost tea, compost and other predator-prey interactions of control.

The second control point is food - the good guys eat the food faster and are
better at getting it than the pathogens. Not a toxic interaction. Again,
let's us go for an exemption.

So, let's stop talking pesticide. No more of that word usage AT ALL. OK?

Elaine
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
SFI Australia
SFI New York
SFI Europe
SFI New Zealand



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Received on Sat Feb 08 2003 - 23:56:08 EST

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