Re: [compost_tea] Fruit Club Update

From: WILLIAM GARLETTE <WILLIAM.GARLETTE_at_cox.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 07:02:44 -0400

Hi Judi,
    Great updates. Could you give us the exact recipe you're using and how=
 often are the members applying CT? Your posts are a testament to CT's via=
bility in organic agriculture. Thanks

Bill
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Judi Stewart
  To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 11:21 PM
  Subject: [compost_tea] Fruit Club Update


   
  Today was compost tea day. The timing couldn't have been better.

  We've been going through a severe draught. Lucky for us it rained last n=
ight

  and this afternoon, right after everyone soil drenched.

   

  Lou was back for 30 more gallons. He's astounded at the length of time h=
is dahlias are

  blooming and he hasn't had to deadhead them.

   

  Carell used compost tea for the first time in August and came back for mo=
re. She

  was about to cut her roses, but applied compost tea as a test and was sho=
cked

  that they all grew buds and bloomed again, and continue to bloom. Her ap=
ple trees are doing well.

   

  Emmy and Will take 10 gallons from every batch. Their apple trees are lo=
aded

  with fruit this year. One tree filled 25 boxes. Emmy brought me some of =
her apple butter.

   

  Ralph says his apples are clean and he has no scab whatsoever.

   

  Heidi used compost tea on her wild plums and made wonderful jam.

   

  Sheila and neighbors Jay and Irene increased their order to 50 gallons. E=
very entry of Irene's took

  a ribbon in the county fair.

   

  Dan and Kathy took 20 gallons to apply to their orchard. They have

  their own five gallon brewer, but will try the club's compost tea

  because our recipe is different. We used T & L Enterprises' yucca today =
for the first time,

  carefully measuring some into each filled container.

   

  Lyle has a KIS and a Bitti brewer but also wanted to try our recipe.

  He's is a life member of the fruit club and thinks compost tea is

  better than sliced bread. Lyle brought me an assortment of his homemade =
jams.

  I can't wait to try his famous gooseberry. Lyle is 87.

   

  Some members drove over an hour to be here by 8 am on Sunday morning,

  pick up their tea, turn around, and rush home to put it down as soon as p=
ossible.

   

  Judi

  BobOLator 250 g.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   


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