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

From: Steve Diver <steved_at_ncatark.uark.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:33:45 -0000

Hi Elaine -

That's good news. I will be getting in
touch with these folks. Will be glad to
pass results and recipes along and get
the CT story out there to more people.

Steve Diver


--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb_at_a... wrote:
> 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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