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Re: [compost_tea] Re: Basic Questions



Tent caterpillars - I'll have to ask the New York lab if they have dealt with this problem before, but I would expect either Beauveria (Mycotrol, talk to Bruce Elliott about getting some, bruce@fish-world.com) or getting a set of highly-offensive-to-insects bacteria sprayed on the trees.  Try the SP-1 bacterial inoculum from Agri-Energy, or the beneficial spore-former inoculum from Holmes Environmental (holmesenviron@attbi.com)

CT with a great set of fungi will stop cedar apple rust .  Try using worm compost with the inoculum of Alaska Humus added in, humic acid or fish hydrolysate, and kelp. 

Fish hydrolysate is liquified fish - bones and all liquified.  NOT fish emulsion, which is bacterial food. 

Ferric citrate should be available from wither the garden store or the animal feed store. 

Elaine Ingham

We have ~100 heritage apples and pear, plum, cherry, walnut, filbert,
oak trees on one acre of wild meadow. We have sprayed dormant oil every
year and I'm going to have trouble getting my husband to stop because of
TENT CATERPILLARS.  We occasionally add lime sulfur for CEDAR APPLE
RUST.  Our orchard is surrounded with cedar trees.  Will CT do it?  How
many applications would we have to make?

Brew with kelp, humic acid, fish hydrolysate (one ounce each) and a
coupledrops of ferric citrate (reduces E. coli).

Is fish hydrolysate just fish fertilizer that you make into a spray?
Where do I ask for ferric citrate--at a garden supply or at the feed
store where I can get trace minerals?

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