Re: [compost_tea] Potato Nutrients for Optimization

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:32:53 EDT

Put the sulpomag in the compost, and once composted, use to make tea.

Add kelp to the tea, or rock flour, or dust, but match the mineral needs of
the plant to the additive you put in the tea, so you give the plant what it
needs.

Work by Arden Anderson suggests that mineral nutrients added to the compost
will REDUCE the total amount you have to add, because addition of mineral
nutrient to not-fully healthy soil (which is why your plant lacks the nutrients it
needs, the life in the soil is not balanced for the plant trying to grow)
means ON AVERAGE 80% of that nutrient will leach.

So, instead of causing ground water problems, add the mineral to the compost,
at about 80% LESS than the soil chem report suggests, and the biology will
cycle the nutrient to the plant in a plant available form.

Obviously, this is cutting edge info, the scientific studies have just barely
been started, all at the "observation" stage.

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
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