Re: [compost_tea] Defining what is compost tea exactly

From: diana lewis <poulsbokid_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:00:46 -0700 (PDT)

I use there nutrient mix aproximately 1 oz per gallon.
The container says it holds 30 gallons but I usually
only get 25 and I only add nutrient for 25 gallons. I
do not add any thing else(besides the shrimp). I spray
it diluted 50% because of the time it takes to strain
mix and spray. I also make it 2 times a month during
the summer and once a month as a soil soak in the
winter.
--- soilfoodweb_at_aol.com wrote:
> OK, but do you add any other food resource?
>
> So, are you doing the tea the way the manufacturer
> suggests, with the
> addition of the food resource they sell, at the
> rates they sell it?
>
> If you aren't adding a food resource, otehr than the
> shrimp and maybe some
> omcpost, then you are doing things very differently
> than the manufacturer
> suggests, right?
>
> and probably a very good thing too, because you
> aren't adding enough food to
> grow the orgnaisms very rapidly, thus driving the
> system anaerobic. So, no
> problem then.
>
> But using what you are describing, you could use
> three or four air stones on
> the bottom of the tank and get the same results,
> without having spent the $300
> to $500 for the Soil Soup unit.
>
> If you are doing other things, I'd sure like to
> know, because I would like to
> know when the Soil Soup machine can work. And if
> you put in less foods than
> what the manufacturer suggests, then you need to
> apply at a heavy rate, for
> example, all 30 gallons of the tea on 100 square
> foot area, in order to get
> good coverage. Small gardens, not a problem. Large
> acreages, no way.
>
> Elaine Ingham
> 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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