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[compost_tea] Re: field bindweed



---Guess I'll go over to the local land grant institute (kansas 
State/dupont) and see what their soil scientists and microbiologist's 
know about this. Maybe they'll let me introduce ACT to them.  HAHA 
Hope this is not sunday conversation. Dennis




 In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, "dkemnitz2000" <dkemnitz2000@y...> 
wrote:
> ---Thanks Ray,  Have any idea of a compost tea for destroying 
poison 
> ivy in the Kansas timber? I can't even harvest a handful of fungi 
> around poison ivy and it seems the ivy is in the best soils I've 
got. 
> Probably not, huh?  I'll look for Arden's book and at Charles 
> Walter's too. Dennis
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, ray gore <xrg22000@y...> wrote:
> > What Dr.E will tell you is that you have to set the
> > conditions to out compete the weeds. Traditional row
> > crops grow best at a fungal to bacteria ratio of 1:1.
> > Weeds are other and like jeff said are an indication
> > of various inbalances in the soils minerals or
> > indicators of compaction or excesses or deficiencies
> > of some element. Example- Kocia thrives in a bacteria
> > dominated compact soil. Viney/woody weeds usually in
> > high potasium (above 7.5%)soils, thistle as jeff wrote
> > in high nitrates, so on and so forth. look in Arden
> > Andersons book, theres a section on weeds thats good.
> > --- dkemnitz2000 <dkemnitz2000@y...> wrote:
> > > Anyone heard of application of CT to
> > > control/eradicate noxious weeds? 
> > > Dennis
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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