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Re: Regulation of compost teas (was: NOSB loses its head)



>From reading Organic Gardening and Farming as well as Mother Earth News,
I thought the idea behind compost and manure "teas" were to leach out
the soluable nutrients in H2O in order to give a quick response from an
application to plants. Also there was work which showed some disease
suppression to compost tea sprays.

When did the addition on sugars come into play?

Heide Hermary wrote:
>
> Isn't that what EM is about, basically?
> Heide
>
> Dale Wilson wrote:
>
> >If that is really how it works, a safer approach might be to get a
> >little culture tube of the right bacteria and use that to inoculate a
> >batch of sugar water and inorganic salts, aerate it and grow up a
> >tremendous crop of exactly the species you want.  I have done this with
> >biocontrol bacteria and it is very easy to do.
> >
> >Dale
> >
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