[compost_tea] Re: Recent posts

From: hi_yield1 <hi_yield1_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:10:20 -0000

Beware
Industry speaks!! Take care HI i_Yield.

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, Robert Norsen <bnbrew_at_y...> wrote:
> Congratulations hi yield - you are certainly an expert in the
baffling part. Bob
>
> hi_yield1 <hi_yield1_at_y...> wrote:Margaret,
> I agree that to many lab like limitations or strict requirments have
> been put on making good compost tea. Creating an ideal environment
in
> a
> brewer to mass multiply microbes that may or may not even exist in
the
> compost to begin with. Keep the brewing temp. just right, don't let
> the
> oxygen level drop below x amount, don't over feed or under feed the
> microbes, bacteria vs fungi, do not use chlorinated water, keep out
of
> direct sunlight, no bio slime, do not use copper vessels, do not
over
> aggitate, do not use wrong size spray nozzel, may take years to
> correct soil biology, no till, apply immediately before mass die
off,
> SFI testing to be considered legit and the list goes on. OK let's
say
> you have done all of the above and then some. It's time to apply!!
You
> now take this wonderful brew out of the Lab so to speak and
introduce
> it to an enviornment that is foreign to the one it came from. In an
> organically enriched soil all players that you are trying to add
> should already be present, furthermore in equilibrium. As soon as
the
> air pump is shut off the growth stops. What do you think happens in
> the less than oxygenated soil? Massive die off. RED TIDE!! ANAEROBIC
> conditions!! While the lab Techies may be able to look at identify
and
> classify all of these wonderful microbes. They DO NOT know all
> players involved. In fact only a very small percentage. Nor is it
> understood how they interact or what numbers are really needed. Like
> the saying goes if I can't dazzel you with brillance I will baffle
you
> with bullshit. You will also find the most out spoken members of
this
> forum are those in the business. You would be better of adding your
> compost directly to the soil and writing about that. I know, it's
> nothing new and you can't make a name for yourself or win the Nobel
> Peace Prize but it is tried and true. Working for you much longer
than
> any Artificially contrived Super Juice Tea. Take care and God Save
The
> Queen, Hi_Yield1.
>
> --- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, Margaret Lauterbach
> <melauter_at_e...> wrote:
> > I just joined this list a couple of days ago. I am a garden
> columnist,
> > wrote columns for the Boise daily paper for nearly ten years until
> they
> > laid me off last summer to
> > "save money." Here in the intermountain west we have growing
> conditions,
> > diseases and insects that national magazines and standard
references
> don't
> > deal with. I decided to publish my columns online, and had a
> professional
> > help me set up a website. It's at www.margaretlauterbach.com .
I'm
> trying
> > to encourage beginners to get into gardening, and many of them
don't
> think
> > they can master planting a seed.
> >
> > I'm having great difficulty in trying to follow the complex issues
> on this
> > website, and wonder if it's absolutely necessary to regulate
> temperatures
> > of compost tea. I fear that getting into this type of
complication
> will
> > drive off new gardeners, depriving them of the pleasure and
solace
> of
> > gardening. Thank you, Margaret Lauterbach
>
>
>
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