[compost_tea] Puzzled!!!

From: Scott Alexander <daylily_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 19:42:12 +1000

Active Bacterial Biomass 174 ug/g
Total Bacterial Biomass 3150 ug/g
Active fungal Biomass 333 ug/g
Total Fungal Biomass 1648 ug/g
Hyphal diameter 3 um

Elaine - you must have made a good recovery from your flight across the Pac=
ific. I'm not able to come to your Coff's Harbour seminar but I'm hoping ou=
r Greenkeeper will be there.

What I'm puzzled about is this. If I produced a tea with great numbers like=
 the above, wouldn't it get pretty smelly within a couple of days? Wouldn't=
 the trillions of microbes be using up all the available dissolved oxygen a=
nd then the sample would become smelly?

The last two CT's I made were each brewed for 2 days. One litre samples of=
 each brew were poured into two litre bottles and kept in a cool spot and b=
oth smelled perfectly OK after two days. Were they any good? It looked good=
 and smelled good but, without sending it away to Lismore for testing, coul=
d it be an effective CT?

Any greenkeepers in this group? Suppose you want to plant dozens of trees b=
etween two fairways, or along a boundary (so that passing cars don't get da=
maged), how do you prepare the area for planting?

If these are dumb questions and indicate that I learnt nothing much at thre=
e previous seminars of Elaine's, I'll just have to drop everything and come=
 down to Coff's Harbour :- ))

Scott Alexander.
 




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