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Re: [compost_tea] Re: 80 F for 48 hours



Good persistance Irene.  Sure you can use home made compost - mix with forest made cmpost.  that forest floor may be the best .  I suggest 2 or 3 cups of a blend with 2 tablespoon of oat flour and after the pre treatment you are doing add in your brewer with 2 tablespoon of kelp, a teaspoon of humic acid and leave all that other stuff out or use very little. like a half easpoon  Low numbers of good microbes are far better than high numbers of anaerobic microbes.  If you over load your aeration system a small system it can go anaerobic very easily. 

I would use the tea without the oil. Your gonna get lots of conflicting advice.  Listen well. when we used tea alone we got good results  Bob

 irene bensinger <irene@trilliumwoods.com> wrote:

Listers kindly suggested:

>You can use a seed germinating mat, place it on top of the refrig if
>there is room, put it on top of a water heater or keep it in the
>furnace room.

and

>if you have forced air heat, put it right over a register and cover
>with a blanket or towel.

The seed germinating mats are all busy...germinating seeds. No
clearance above the built-in fridge, on-demand hot water heater is
cold most of the time, woodstove-heated house so no furnace room or
registers. BUT, I can put it in the box + heat lamp arrangement I use
for chicks!

Thanks, everybody, for your suggestions. Now I need to know *what* to
innoculate. I have finished compost and in-process hot compost out in
the garden, worm compost and juice from the Can O Worms in the
greenhouse, lots of forest floor duff (mixed firs, spruce, hemlock,
alder, bigleaf maple, vine maple, etc.). But no store boughten
compost. Is it not possible to use homemade compost for CT?

I plan to buzz plain rolled oats in the food processor til it's fine.
Is that all I need to add to a cup of compost? I also have dry
powdered humic acid, liquid kelp, Coast of Maine salmon gorp,
molasses from the health food store...

If I want to spray fruit trees with CT, should I not use dormant oil
spray? I'm assuming that the oil would prevent the CT from ever
reaching the surface of bark and buds, but maybe that's a bad
assumption...

So much to learn! Thanks for all the help.

irene

irene@trilliumwoods.com


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