Chris,
Feel free to use my test data in any way that you like.
I'll be doing some field trials on turf next year and will make that data
available too.
Paul Sachs
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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 7:17
AM
Subject: [compost_tea] Offer to Create
Best Practices Lists
Jason Austin said:
Some of those lurkers have been
snapped at in recent months, that'll drive people for cover pretty
quick. More tolerance to "dumb" questions will probably
see more activity. There will be dumb questions; there will be
questions that have been asked and answered before; but that is what a list
is all about, people come and go.
Jason's post reminds me that on
lists, it is a challenge to go back through old posts and figure out the
answer to your questions. Yes, people do come and go on a list and
making it easy to learn as people join can help more people be up to speed
more quickly, and raise us all to new levels of expertise much
faster.
I offered to compile weed test results (a couple of people
responded but no one has sent any data). I also offer to compile and
put in document form other group information. Here is an example of
what we could collect and make available, especially to new list
members:
1. Our compiled list of BEST PRACTICES FOR BREWING,
including tips we have learned about cleaning equipment, water type and pH,
aeration before brewing, temperature, container size and shape. This
can be an ongoing list of BPs and as people learn from making and testing
teas, we can add to the list or append/annotate.
2. BEST
PRACTICES - TEA SPRAYING: Our similar compiled list of BPs for spraying
teas, including specific information about equipment, pressure, nozzle
types, spray technique, weather conditions, and other "learned the hard
way" info.
3. Ditto for BEST PRACTICES - TEA
APPLYING
4. RECIPES AND RESULTS: A list of recipes and test
results for those willing to share their SFI test and the ingredients they
combined to get the result. (This would be intended as a starting point for
people, rather than with any implication that if I make your recipe I will
necessarily come up with the same results.)
5. BREWER
OBSERVATIONS - A table formatted to show consumer observations about their
brewers: are they easy or difficult to clean? Are there caveats
to using it? When you have used other brewers, what comparison would
you make about the features? This feedback can also be given
to manufacturers for their comment or ideas to use in improving their
product or simply confirming the usefulness of their current
design.
For example, the recent question related to spraying and spray
nozzles clogging could be more easily answered if we had a list of nozzles,
where to get them, and what firsthand experience had taught us about using
those nozzles.
We are amassing a shared body of information and
knowledge here, and it seems wasteful for each and every person to have to
design a way to capture the info and store it so that it will be easily
retrievable.
If anyone wants to do this, JUMP RIGHT IN! I will
start tracking and making the lists when you start responding. Don't
miss this big chance to be heard and have your wisdom recorded in the
Golden Archives of this CT e-group!
To begin basking in your 15 minutes
of fame, just send a post with a heading that copies one of the TITLES IN
CAPS in the numbered areas listed above. Please send multiple posts if you
have multiple observations, so these posts can be sorted out by TOPIC and
put in an electronic folder as I collect them for making the lists and
tables. Don't forget -- what is obvious to you now was not obvious
when you started! The simplest tip will help the beginner.
Please
note whether or not you have tested the teas produced by the method you are
suggesting. Untested methods will be listed as
IDEAS/UNTESTED METHODS. If others read the list and discover an
idea/untested method for which they have already tested, we then would
welcome and add their information on the results the methods have produced
for them.
If you find that this suggestion would be of value, please
vote with your ACTION. I'd rather not debate it -- I'd rather just
get it done!
Cheers,
Chris Reid
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