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Re: [compost_tea] white sugar



hi ok
could i put it in my compost pile or will it grow bad things there to
on molases i am able to get blackstrapp molases from my dad who owns a 
health food store i heard that that is even better

Oliver
> Not a great choice, because it is a limited diversity of kinds of
> sugars.   White sugar is refined aqnd typically nearly only sucrose,
> which is a chain  of  glucose and fructose.  You want more foods than
> that, in order to feed a  wider diversity of bacteria.
> 
> The same reasons you don't eat refined white sugar anymore also hold s
> the  same for soil/tea/compost organisms.
> 
> Still, a little bit of sugar will be ok, just don't add much because
> the  bacteria really take off on it, and can drop your oxygen badly. 
> Some of the  folks making compost tea would also say that simple sugars
> like that will  encourage bacteria you don't want to grow.  So maybe it
> is better to leave  out the simple sugars all together.  
> 
> The only sugar I add to anything is molasses, because it contains a
> wide  diversity of kinds of sugars, and some really recalcitrant kinds
> of sugar as  well, which helps the fungi grow.  We have a paper being
> presented at  Biocycle this year about how molasses, at the right
> concentration, suppresses  E. coli grow.  
> 
> Hope this helps - 
> 
> Elaine
> President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
> www.soilfoodweb.com
> SFI Oregon, USA
> SFI Australia
> SFI New York
> SFI Europe
> SFI New Zealand



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