Re: [compost_tea] Re: Re: Re: Re: non-aerated teas?
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From: Tim Kiphart
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:05 PM
Subject: RE: [compost_tea] Re: Re: Re: Re: non-aerated teas?
I can't be 100%, but I believe Bob Cannard, the King of Anerobic Teas, uses=
them both as a foliar and a drench....grows lots o bitchin edibles to boot=
.
Tim
Folks:
I posted before about the vinyard manager who has been making this type of =
tea for quite a while and gets good results. I called him yesterday in rel=
ation to something else and it's his opinion that aerated and hyper-bacteri=
al/fungal growth in a brewer doesn't, in the long run, add much to the soil=
and the plants. I mentioned a couple of things I had done and why I thoug=
ht it was better and he suggested I try to repeat what I had done using his=
method. We now have a nice bet that the results will be different so this=
spring, we are going to do a controlled A/B test using his 'drip' method a=
nd one of my brewers. We will have a series of soil tests as well as plant=
assays before and after spraying and soil soaking. We plan to do everythi=
ng exactly the same except for the type of tea. We plan, grape applicaton,=
turf application with two 10 x 10 plots of turf, rose application, seedlin=
gs (grape) and herbs. So finally we will have some data.
I think Elaine described it correctly from a testing and and lab point of v=
iew. So now we will see what happens in the field. My suspicion is that E=
laine has it right and we will get far better results with the aerated tea =
than the 'drip' tea but that's just my suspicion. I think the aerated tea w=
ill test biologically far more active. So we will see if it gets transferr=
ed to the soil and actually provides the mildew protection in a significant=
ly greater amount than 'drip' tea.
Ted Peterson
EW/SOE
Received on Thu Jan 13 2005 - 13:19:04 EST
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