Re: [compost_tea] alfalfa hay/meal added to soil is critter food?

From: Steve Bridges <kimas_at_texasgrown.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:57:33 -0500

There is an old farmer-type gentlemen that shops at our nursery and he uses
nothing but cottonseed meal and his barn manure compost in his vegetable
garden. Nothing else. He brings some of his veggies by to show them off
occassionally. Beautiful produce!
Steve Bridges

----- Original Message -----
From: "George and Paulette Mouchet" <geomouchet_at_QNET.COM>
To: <compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:37 AM
Subject: [compost_tea] alfalfa hay/meal added to soil is critter food?


> I wasn't clear with my first question. Let me rephrase.
>
> If I apply alfalfa hay or alfalfa meal to the top inch or so of the soil
> (as a fertilizer), is it going to be helpful to the soil organisms? If
so,
> which organisms are most likely to be helped?
>
> What about adding cottonseed meal to the top inch or so of soil?
>
> Thanks,
> Paulette
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: soilfoodweb_at_aol.com [SMTP:soilfoodweb_at_aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:54 AM
> To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [compost_tea] alfalfa hay/meal bacterial food?
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> It's all relative. In some work we have done, the cottonseed meal helps
> out fungi more than the alfalfa hay, and meal.
>
> In different conditions, the relative selection might be different. You
> learn as you go.
>
> Elaine Ingham
> President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
> SFI Corvallis, OR
> SFI Port Jefferson, NY
> SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
> SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
> SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
> www.soilfoodweb.com
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