[compost_tea] Re: Re: Matt's CT Recipe

From: Kirk Leonard <kirk_at_oregonatural.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:34:53 -0800

Oliver -- Short answer is yes, especially if you add a little molasses -- no
more than .5% of water volume. You can actually make bacterial tea with any
compost, just want to make sure it's good compost to get beneficials. Need
to be careful with manures - all contain some E.coli (and others per animal
and feed) bacteria that have to be handled carefully. It always should be
well-composted or vermicomposted when used in a tea, imo. And don't use any
compost that doesn't smell good or is black - dark-dark brown is ok. I also
think it should feel good to your hand. Bad compost or un-composted manures
should be spread and stirred lightly (a rake works well) into soil in the
Fall and allowed to over-winter.

Any thoughts about why Matt's fungal recipe didn't succeed?

-- Kirk

> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:24:56 -0800 (PST)
> From: oliver hauver <enoc2222_at_yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Matt's CT Recipe
> Hi
> I was wondering if you ued bacterial compost/worm casting if that would
make bacterial compost tea
> LMK
> Oliver
>
> Kirk Leonard <kirk_at_oregonatural.com> wrote:
> Matt posted this most interesting compost tea recipe 11/21 and I think it
> bears some discussion, so I put my two cents in...
>
> > "Thought to be fungal" CT Recipe:
> 1) Vermicompost (Orner's) 454 g. (1 lb.)
> 2) Fungal Compost (custom made for high fungal) 454 g. (1 lb.)
> 3) Leaf Litter - from woodlot 681 g. (1.5 lb.)
> 4) Comfrey Leaves - from employee garden 454 g. (1 lb.)
> 5) Corn Gluten Meal "Natural Green" (Fertrell) 25g (0.882 ounces)
> 6) Insoluble Humic Acid "L-65" (Organic Approach) 75 g (2.65 ounces)
> 7) Soluble Humic Acid "SP-85" (Organic Approach) 50 g (1.76 ounces)
> 8) Acadian Kelp "Nature's Essence" (Organic Approach) 20 g (0.705 ounces)
> 9) Fish Hydrolysate "Neptune's Harvest" (Organic Approach) 50 ml (1.69 fl.
> oz) <




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