[compost_tea] Compost Tea for Potatoes

From: Ryan, Matthew <matthew.ryan_at_rodaleinst.org>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:21:19 -0400

Hello Everyone,

As some of you may know we are conducting a series of experiments with compost tea here at The Rodale Institute. One of the experiments is focused on compost tea for disease suppression in potatoes. I have heard from many people that there are farmers with hundreds of acres in Idaho that are using compost tea. If anyone knows of any people I can contact who are using compost tea on potatoes, please provide me with their contact info (off list is fine).

I did track down some people that Elaine worked with in the past, namely Oscar Gutbrod and Solamen Yilma. Unfortunately they could not provide me with any information other than "it didn't really work" and that they thought the application was too late after planting.

Elaine, if you know of any successful potato growers using compost tea or other research with compost tea and potatoes, please let me know.

Also, if anyone out there has any info on potato compost tea recipes I would appreciate some suggestions.

PS - I will of course be reporting the results to all of you and the specifics of our project.

Thank you.

Matthew Ryan
Research Technician
The Rodale Institute
611 Siegfriedale Road
Kutztown, PA 19530
(610) 683-1405

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