Re: [compost_tea] soil chemistry facts

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:13:47 EDT

Hi Lynton -

I never internd to flame either, but sometimes people read that into what I
write. Getting the tone right in an e-mail is sometimes hard. I've learned to
through a GRIN! in there when I'm being cute, so people don't take it wrong.

And I'm glad you take the responses the way they are meant!

I think that getting calcium into the soil if you have too low Ca:Mg is
important, but you need to add that in the compost, not as a mineral addition. The
mineral addition means negative impact on the microorganisms. Killing the
very organisms you need to help!

Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institue Cambridge, New Zealand
Soil Foodweb Inc., Hilversum, The Netherlands
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho




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