RE: [compost_tea] ACT & Garlic
VAM stands for Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhiza.
Doug Larson
Bothell, Washington
-----Original Message-----
From: David Attwater [mailto:nativefreshwaterfish_at_hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 7:36 PM
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] ACT & Garlic
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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