Re: [compost_tea] FW: NOFC - Compost Tea
Your working yourself skinny, Judi. Question about the prior mud. Do you check it carefully by smell test to know it is aerobic? If it stinks, don't use it. If it smells good keep it aerated in a fresh brew asap and check it just before you put it in an aerobitizing situation. Was that a word? .
Judi Stewart <js_at_olympus.net> wrote:
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Our club was on a field trip yesterday. At one of our stops we visited an organic farmer of fruits and vegetables who makes and uses
compost tea. We observed brewer sitting inside the greenhouse. The air temperature at 3 pm registered 110 degrees F.
What would you suppose this tea is doing to the plants?
I used one 350 watt aquarium heater which raised the water in our 250 g. plastic tank from 60 degrees F. to 68 degrees F. overnight. The rubber suction cups of the heater and its thermostat didn’t stick to the walls of the tank, but it really didn’t matter. Water usually comes up 5 degrees colder from the well in the fall and winter. At that time we’ll use two heaters. We made 250 g. of ACT using the following:
10 # compost
10 # vermicompost
1 # ACT mud from the previous batch
20 ou.- powdered seaweed
5 ou.- liquid humic acid
90 ou.- molasses
32 ou.- Azomite
Just thought I’d pass along the latest message from a new fruit club member who used this batch of ACT.
Judi
<-----Original Message-----
From: Lou Hoffer
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:02 PM
To: Judi Stewart
Subject: Re: NOFC - Compost Tea
Judi
When is the next Compost tea sale. The tea works like a magic elixir. Roses have not looked better. Even seems to be helping the flowering crabapple. Plants seem to be asking, when is the next treatment?>
Lou Hoffer
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Received on Wed Jul 16 2003 - 02:09:03 EDT
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