soybean meal, was RE: [compost_tea] Re:Re: chemical based -> biological approach

From: Paulette Mouchet <geomouchet_at_QNET.COM>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 15:35:12 -0800

Dear Jeff:

How much soybean meal are you applying?

Paulette



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lowenfels [mailto:jeff_at_gardener.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 1:10 PM
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Re:Re: chemical based -> biological approach

Chris,
 
Let me tell you my 'test' for success with AACT and the biological approach.
I used to feed my back lawn with Miracle Gro liquid lawn food....very high
nitrogen and mycorrhizal-damaging phosphorus. My position in town requires
that my lawn look as good or better than any other one in town: I write the
garden column in the paper. I have plenty of critics. Worse, people do what
I do.
 
I took my lawn off Miracle grow a few years back. Junkie that it was, if I
missed one of the twice or thrice yearly applications and the lawn showed
that fact. One third of the lawn was fed CT and soybean meal, one third just
the soybean and one third nothing. The entire lawn got the same sun, water,
play and moose abuse.
 
Incidentally, I tested my teas to death the prior winter and spent quite a
bit of money getting them to the point where I knew I had great tea. So I
knew I was making good tea.
 
After the first season the visual differences between the three sections was
enough proof for me. The second season clinched it and knowing the entire
area would be a nice, soft, green, thick lawn was all the proof I needed to
spray the whole thing with tea and put soy bean meal down to feed the
microbes...and to tell my readers to do the same, despite the extra
mushrooms that have appeared!
 
There are enough lawn sprayers on this list to attest to the success of tea
in this way: If you substitute teas and microbe food for chemicals, you can
still get a green lawn.
 
Incidentally, this season I suspect I can put down the soy bean meal and
spray only once and "get" the same results as I used to with three
applications of chemical.
 
Cheers,
 
Jeff
Cheers,
 
Jeff
 
 

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