[compost_tea] Re: fungal vermicompost

From: dloring3 <dloring3_at_cox.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 03:21:31 -0000

Kirk - I'm afraid I don't know what "gdw" stands for??

Dave

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, Kirk Waterstripe
<healthysoil_at_s...> wrote:
> Shredded paper! When I worked at a well known soil biology lab, we
made vermicompost with 2-3 milligrams of fungal biomass per gdw.
Sorry, we never wrote down the proportions.
>
> Kirk Waterstripe
> Midwest Soil Health Services
> Grawn, MI
>
> clay <clayc_at_w...> wrote:
> the other day, i read a message from mike harvey regarding-
>
> ensuring fungal growth by using paramagnetic rock dust...i seem to
have lost
> the email now
>
> jeff also mentioned a while ago, using oatmeal in his recipe to
enhance
> fungal growth.
>
> im interested to know if anyone is making their own compost /
vermicompost
> to use for tea brewing?
>
> and
>
> what other ingredients are people using to enhance fungal activity
before
> the brewing process?
>
> my reason for asking this is that our city farm may be undertaking
some
> larger scale worm farming and i would like to produce fungal
dominated worm
> castings...
>
> thanks
>
> Clayton Chipper
>
> East Perth City Farm
> Australia
> ph. 089 325 7229
> Fax. 089 325 7210
>
>
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