Good deal. Participate!
Please do keep us informed this season about your experiences growing medicinal herbs with inputs of compost tea; sounds rad, Rosie.
Are your herbs perrenials or annuals?
This generally determines the F:B ratio you will be attempting to encourage in your patio garden. Depending on plant species, we can can start to pin this down. This will have implications for your tea nutrients, wether you want simple sugars to select for more bacteria or more complex foods to feed fungi.
In my experience, and I believe most would agree, bacteria have been easy to grow, so most of the time we are attemping to grow fungi anyhow.
Have you picked up a Tea Brewing Manual? It may not be in your library yet.
Have lotsa fun~ Kev
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:58:40 -0600 Sonshine <sonshine_at_houston.rr.com> wrote:
Hi everyone. Time to introduce myself, I joined a few days ago to learn more about compost teas. I'm not commercial, have a small patio home and trying to grow medicinal herbs; am a medical herbalist, not a commercial grower.
So first question is this group only for commercial growers or also for individuals who just want to increase their knowledge in organic gardening?
I recently purchased a very small compost tea kit from www.gardensalive.com Looked good, very reasonable and am waiting for it to arrive. Making my own inoculants (I think that's what it's called) is what I'm trying to learn. What I've found so far is to have a started of good compost, some worm compost, a little molasses and brew it up. Is this too simplistic?
Any help would be appreciated or sources close to me (Houston) that could provide the materials for the compost tea at a reasonable cost.
Thanks in advance,
Rosie
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