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[compost_tea] Re: 80 F for 48 hours



Listers kindly suggested:

>You can use a seed germinating mat, place it on top of the refrig if 
>there is room, put it on top of a water heater or keep it in the 
>furnace room.

and

>if you have forced air heat, put it right over a register and cover 
>with a blanket or towel.

The seed germinating mats are all busy...germinating seeds. No 
clearance above the built-in fridge, on-demand hot water heater is 
cold most of the time, woodstove-heated house so no furnace room or 
registers. BUT, I can put it in the box + heat lamp arrangement I use 
for chicks!

Thanks, everybody, for your suggestions. Now I need to know *what* to 
innoculate. I have finished compost and in-process hot compost out in 
the garden, worm compost and juice from the Can O Worms in the 
greenhouse, lots of forest floor duff (mixed firs, spruce, hemlock, 
alder, bigleaf maple, vine maple, etc.). But no store boughten 
compost. Is it not possible to use homemade compost for CT?

I plan to buzz plain rolled oats in the food processor til it's fine. 
Is that all I need to add to a cup of compost? I also have dry 
powdered humic acid, liquid kelp, Coast of Maine salmon gorp, 
molasses from the health food store...

If I want to spray fruit trees with CT, should I not use dormant oil 
spray? I'm assuming that the oil would prevent the CT from ever 
reaching the surface of bark and buds, but maybe that's a bad 
assumption...

So much to learn! Thanks for all the help.

irene

irene@trilliumwoods.com

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