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[compost_tea] Re: More on CT's for strawberries



Hi Elaine -

That's good news.  I will be getting in 
touch with these folks.  Will be glad to 
pass results and recipes along and get 
the CT story out there to more people. 

Steve Diver 


--- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
> Steve - 
> 
> Talk to Paul Wagner at the SFI NY lab.  DAta on dealing with the 
nasty 
> eastern rots using CT.  Talk with James Sottilo, same story.  
Recipes have to 
> be worked on, have to grow beneficial fungi in the tea, but Jeff 
Lowenfels is 
> doing just that.  He has some good stories too. 
> 
> Just finished up work with an organic banana grower in Australia.  
Compost 
> and CT worked well on the root-borer, root rots, and weeds.  He now 
has 
> ryegrass in his banana plantation instead of couch grass!   More 
work to do 
> to improve things though!  Won't be happy until he's making 2.5 
boxes of 
> bananas per tree!
> 
> My talk has changed considerably over the last year.  More 
information on 
> where this is working.  Check out the updates of the revised Compost 
Tea 
> Brewing Manual.  Those of you who get my e-zine received the first 
update 
> last month, more this month!
> 
> Elaine
> President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
> www.soilfoodweb.com
> SFI Oregon, USA
> SFI Australia
> SFI New York
> SFI Europe
> SFI New Zealand
> 
> "Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn 
out well, 
> but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter how 
things 
> turn out."   --  Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech 
Republic


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