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[compost_tea] Puzzled!!!



Active Bacterial Biomass  174 ug/g
Total Bacterial Biomass    3150 ug/g
Active fungal Biomass       333 ug/g
Total Fungal Biomass       1648 ug/g
Hyphal diameter               3 um
 
Elaine - you must have made a good recovery from your flight across the Pacific. I'm not able to come to your Coff's Harbour seminar but I'm hoping our Greenkeeper will be there. 
 
What I'm puzzled about is this. If I produced a tea with great numbers like the above, wouldn't it get pretty smelly within a couple of days? Wouldn't the trillions of microbes be using up all the available dissolved oxygen and then the sample would become smelly?
 
The last two  CT's I made were each brewed for 2 days. One litre samples of each brew were poured into two litre bottles and kept in a cool spot and both smelled perfectly OK after two days. Were they any good? It looked good and smelled good but, without sending it away to Lismore for testing, could it be an effective CT?
 
Any greenkeepers in this group? Suppose you want to plant dozens of trees between two fairways, or along a boundary (so that passing cars don't get damaged), how do you prepare the area for planting?
 
If these are dumb questions and indicate that I learnt nothing much at three previous seminars of Elaine's, I'll just have to drop everything and come down to Coff's Harbour  :- ))
 
Scott Alexander.
 

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