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[compost_tea] Compost Tea for Roses or Boxwood?



I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who is using compost tea 
for large rose gardens or boxwood hedges.

I am a solo practitioner - do hand pruning and landscape maintenance 
on a fairly small scale - and just ordered a tea brewer and Elaine's 
manual.  I 've been receiving Elaine's newsletter for a year or 
more, and finally found a brewer at a price I can afford.

I often see boxwood that is stressed and has foliar diseases, partly 
because it is sheared and never thinned and the inside of the plant 
becomes humid, fostering fungal diseases.  Then the leaves fall off 
inside the plant -- it's not pretty.  However, pruning boxwood is 
also stressful to the plant.  I am thinking that compost tea may be 
of help in bringing these plants around, both soilwise and for 
foliar application.

For roses, I am talking to a potential new customer who has a lot of 
roses and wants them cared for organically.  Many of them are hybrid 
teas (don't know the cultivars) and before I yank them all, I'd like 
to see how they do with balanced soil and tea for disease 
suppression on the leaves.

I'd sure like to hear comments from anyone who is using the teas on 
either of these plants.  Comments, anyone?

Chris Reid


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