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Re: [compost_tea] Facts and some Myths!



Thnaks Jeff for you discussion.  You mention thqt winters are long up there.  I am growing lettuce and sojme other crops here in West Seattle a 1000 ft.from the Sound. some years we get no freeze.  some crops can stand 20 degrees and we have had a little frost.  Yes I use TEA. 

What about greenhouses up there?  Can they use TEA to advantage?  Is anyone there working in that direction?  I understand John Evans has a brewer of his own and is on the market?  How do they compare?  What does he think of mine? 

I am interested in how CT can be useful year around.  Any ideas?   ( without going to Mexico)  Bob

 Jeff Lowenfels <jeff@gardener.com> wrote:

There are giant vegetables and there are vegetables that grow large. These
are two different things.

Most giant vegetables are grown using special seeds of varieties that grow
larger then normal varieties.  Growing these larger than the average size
requires tremendous amounts of nutrients and water.  Anyone can grow good,
large vegetables as long as they use these seeds and water and feed like
there is no tomorrow.

Many of the large vegetables grown in competition with John Evans every
summer and some of John's, too, are from such seed. Many who compete with
John at the fair "force feed" chemical fertilizers and water and these grow
quite large vegetables. Some folks use organic foods and these do well, too.
However,  John Evans uses compost teas  at least once a week and no one else
does. I have seen the tests on John's tea and they are pretty bacterial R>As Doc
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