Re: [compost_tea] ACT & Garlic

From: David Attwater <nativefreshwaterfish_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:35:39 +1000
what are 'vam spores'?


>From: soilfoodweb_at_aol.com
>Reply-To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
>To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [compost_tea] ACT & Garlic
>Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:15:10 EDT
>
>Done a little work on garlic and onion.
>
>Get good aerobic compost tea under the seeds, with VAM spores in the tea.
>
>That seems to stop Sclerotia, which is a huge problem in onion.  Again, a
>good diversity of organisms in the tea, high bacterial numbers, high fungi,
>but
>also put in an inoculum of lactic -acid producing facultative anaerobes,
>better
>known as EM.  Or from Bokashi, for example.
>
>When soil gets a little compacted, you want something that will be more
>competitive than the human pathogens or plant pathgens, that are often
>selected by
>reduced oxygen conditions.  So I think adding these bacteria as a
>safety-hedge
>is a good idea.  You don't want to select for reduced oxygen, but sometimes
>it happens
>
>If you see any foliar or stem problems, spray the aboveground part of the
>plant with the same good aerobic tea.  This works well to shut down
>Fusarium or
>other stem rots.
>
>But be aware that any compost tea with good humic acid content will tend to
>leave spots behind on plants like onion.  So, if you are going fro shallots
>to
>be used in salad, for example, you may not want to use compost tea on them.
>
>
>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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