[compost_tea] Re: Def'n of good tea

From: dkemnitz2000 <dkemnitz2000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 04:21:52 -0000
--- Typo below:What does high CO2 do to aerobes? Dennis





In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "dkemnitz2000" <dkemnitz2000@y...>
wrote:
> ---What does high concentrations of CO2 do to anaerobes, in
general?
> Put them to sleep initially and then kill them at higher
> concentrations? Dennis
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>  In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
> > Yes, working out the definitions took years.  Because you have to
> quantify the organisms in the tea, and follow the effect of those
> organisms on plants. 
> >
> > We do organism assessment of the tea, then spray out and
determine
> what actually gives protection, or improves nutrient cycling, and
> builds soil structure.  It's the organisms.  But at what
> concentration?   That takes time to figure out.  Some of the data
are
> on the SARE website, please look at the reports there. 
> >
> > And you have to remember that just because the tea is excellent
> does not mean that conditions in the soil might not  result in
> organism death.  Great tea, but killing heat, or drought, or
freeze,
> or pesticide drift, or.....no food.  Any one of those conditions
may
> kill the critiers in a good tea.
> >







> > Elaine Ingham
> > President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
> > SFI Corvallis, OR
> > SFI Port Jefferson, NY
> > SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
> > SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
> > SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
> > SFI Culiacan, Mexico
> > SFI Jerome, Idaho
> > http://www.soilfoodweb.com


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