Re: [compost_tea] Hot (not warm) weather AACT considerations

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:12:21 -0400

Right, you've recognized that fewer foods are needed in hot weather.

But assume that your garden is lacking in fungi, not bacteria (you have been tilling?), so you still want to maximize fungi to the greatest extent possible.

So, activate the Wormgold compost by adding fresh compost (a handful, for example from a local source of good worm compost, or thermal compost), OR the activator sent by Wormgold (gfood foods for fungi AND bacteria in there).

Should see some good visible fungi in the compost coming up pretty soon. Jeff Lowenfels has some great pictures of what you want to see. So do the WormGold folks. So does David Loring (Rincon - Vitova), and SFI has a few pictures on the website too.

Just don't overload the tea with too much food when your temps are high!

Otherwise, I think you have it.

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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