Re: [compost_tea] Re: killer fungi !

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:46:17 EST

Tom's exactly right.

One thing you can think about isthat you might want to know that you have
certain beneficials in your compost, tea or soil. If they aren't in your
compost or in your soil, you might want to ADD them. You should only have to
add them ONCE, and as long as you feed them (it's called plants, they feed
the right guys, if the right guys are there), and as long as you do not use
toxic materials on that area, the beneficials will remain present.

But use a pesticide, high levels of inorganic fertilizer, or an anaerobic
tea, and you may have to put the organisms back, because those things can
kill them.

So, checking your soil, compost or tea for the beneficials can be useful.
SFI offers an assay to help you determine if you have the good guys, and if
there is enoug hof them. It's the Beneficial Organism Assay, and we've just
started offering it.

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




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