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[compost_tea] Re: Sprayer recommendation sought
I am just beginning a landscape care service and have some large
scale projects that want proposals (ie. 35 acre retirement
community). I am looking for ways to provide this in a cost effective
way. Could you say more about your sprayer and application? Do you
depend on irrigation to water in the tea or is the 30 gallons per
acre sufficient? What do you use besides tea in your program? How
often do you apply tea? Thanks
Ron
--- In compost_tea@y..., "golftea2003" <wccgolf1@b...> wrote:
> We use a diaphram pump with a boomjet nozzle made by teejet, about
> 35psi, 45feet width of spray, 30 gallons of water per acre.
> Absolutely
> the easiest way to apply tea.
> Charlie
>
>
> -- In compost_tea@y..., "Ross Orner" <rorner@p...> wrote:
> > Sprayer recommendation soughtHi Graeme,
> > We use floodjet nozzles in our sprayer and have taken all screens
> out. We feel that forcing the tea thru screens destroys some of the
> microbes, actually I don't even turn on the agitator until the end
of
> the spray - usually the bouncing around keeps things mixed around.
We
> have a PTO centrifugal pump though. We started with the smallest
> floodjet nozzles we could buy because of slow ground speed, but
found
> we had some degradation of microbes so we switched to a larger size
> to
> eliminate that problem. We first used flat fan nozzles but they
> plugged immediately - we have had no problems with the floodjet
> nozzles plugging.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Graeme Gerrard
> > To: compost_tea@y...
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:41 PM
> > Subject: [compost_tea] Sprayer recommendation sought
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> > I've done a couple of brews now, which I have just been
> experimenting with on a new area which will be a vegie patch -
about
> 200 square metres. I've been putting it out with a watering can
so
> as not to overpressurize the wee microbes an squash em. This has
> been
> reasonably successful. The soil actually smells like soil now
> (presumably Actinomycetes?).
> > Now I want to spray tea out on an acre I intend to grow
> strawberries on commercially but am concerned about spray pressures
> etc. What kind of sprayer can I use. What do you use that you
would
> recommend for 1 acre, but with expansion up to 5 acres. I am
looking
> at a Rapidspray 200l tank with 4m boom, 11.3lpm, 300kPa/45psi. It
has
> a 12 volt pump, not PTO, but has a 3 point linkage so it can hang
off
> the tractor. Anyone here have experience with these things?
> > Thanks in advance.
> > --
> >
> > Graeme Gerrard
> > ggerrard@r...
> >
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