[compost_tea] Re: EM leachate "tea"
I have no vested interests in EM. Check out previous posts to this
group for answers to some of your questions. The microbes in EM can
survive in an aerobic environment and are not exclusive anaerobes.
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--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, David Anderson <squtch@g...>
wrote:
> Well, now that the EM subject has been broached, I might as well
toss
> in some of the questions and comments that I have been thinking
about
> lately. I would really like the input of people that do not have a
> vested interest in EM, yet have looked into the biology and results
> derived with it.
>
> When I first heard about it at the fair at the Yelm Worm Farm, I
was
> skeptical. After all, the woman was pitching an anerobic process,
and
> anerobic is "bad". But I looked into it anyway.
>
> Of course the true believers use it for anything and everything. I
> would not be at all surprised to hear that someone mixes it in
their
> house paint to increase the insulating value. It is *really* hard
to
> take any of them seriously.
>
> Up till this discussion, the only thing that really interested me
was
> to do the bokashi thing with my food waste between building compost
> piles. And I figured that adding the bokashi/food mix to the
compost
> pile would help inoculate any anaerobic pockets with "good"
anaerobes.
>
> I don't like the idea of adding it straight to the garden, because
> their own description of the process seems to imply that you have
to
> actually let it go aerobic for a couple of weeks before it is safe
for
> plants.
>
> The true believers push using the leachate from the bokashi/food
> buckets as a foliar spray. Does anyone know how well this works?
Are
> there any potential bad effects?
>
> How about innoculating a batch of ACT with the leachate, as Elaine
was
> talking about with EM?
>
> What is the behaviour of the EM critters in an aerobic
environment? It
> seems to me that they are not all strict anaerobes. Are they just
less
> competitive? Do they produce different byproducts in an aerobic
> environment?
>
> I guess that is enough questions for now.
>
> Dave
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