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Re: RES: [compost_tea] Inexpensive Tea Blender?
Jose and Loyd Charles $ 40 bucks for the pump sounds like a good
price, if a pump is the right way to brew TEA. Now add the tank, the
time you spend, make 10 to 50 tests with SFI to prove the system, the
recipes, the temps and time to brew, compare to some other brewers to
evaluabe relative performance. Now you know that the $40 pump is a
useful part of a system ( if the results were better or as good as
the other brewers. After all the cost of the brewer is a small part f
the value of the TEA. But the $ 40.00 is an insignificat part of
your cost. From a guy who learned this in the school of hard knocks.
Good on ya Bob - I guess I'm just a sucker for a bargain - however I was
looking at this from the point of view of someone that wanted to start in a
small way - maybe do a little for the backyard or lawn - using a garbage bin
or plastic barrel - a little bit of worm castings they probably have to
start it - and the various feeds have been well documented on this list. If
you're gonna do this on any commercial scale - sure - put your money down
for a decent brewer and lets get on with it. I had already spent the money
on equipment for slow brewing and material mixing so I had no choice but to
use that - feeding was the key.
Cheers
Lloyd Charles
Now some other disconnected thoughts
I view tea / brews as nutrition when applied to a growing crop - I can get
my acreage done twice easily enough, three times maybe, and if I try real
hard I might even get some of it done four times (this is during the growing
period) Thats my reality at this point! You guys are all concentrating on
thorough leaf coverage and frequent applications to fight disease etc and it
must be working well - its the established work pattern for horticulture and
vineyards so there isnt extra work. I fell for the Phil Callahan, Reams,
Albrecht, argument that said if the nutrition was correct these problems
would not be there, simplistic? maybe! But I think it can work on our type
field crops, thats why I am mystified that growers will make and put out
thousands of gallons of CT without doing ANY pre application test for
nutritional effect. OK I know its great stuff, could'nt possibly be
detrimental, (could it?)
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