Re: [compost_tea] Re: More on CT's for strawberries

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 04:31:25 EDT

Steve -

Talk to Paul Wagner at the SFI NY lab. DAta on dealing with the nasty
eastern rots using CT. Talk with James Sottilo, same story. Recipes have to
be worked on, have to grow beneficial fungi in the tea, but Jeff Lowenfels is
doing just that. He has some good stories too.

Just finished up work with an organic banana grower in Australia. Compost
and CT worked well on the root-borer, root rots, and weeds. He now has
ryegrass in his banana plantation instead of couch grass! More work to do
to improve things though! Won't be happy until he's making 2.5 boxes of
bananas per tree!

My talk has changed considerably over the last year. More information on
where this is working. Check out the updates of the revised Compost Tea
Brewing Manual. Those of you who get my e-zine received the first update
last month, more this month!

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

"Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well,
but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter how things
turn out." -- Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic





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