Re: [compost_tea] Hay hay

From: ray gore <xrg22000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:44:07 -0800 (PST)

Nutrient cycling
--- soilfoodweb_at_aol.com wrote:
> If you use hay that has not been treated with a
> pesticide (VERY important to
> know that), then the protozoa like to hang out and
> go-to-sleep on the surfaces
> of the hay.
>
> So, brown stuff, right? The plants went senescent
> (dormant) in the field,
> and were harvested. That material usually has lots
> and lots of protozoa on the
> stems and crowns.
>
> So, take hay, add just enough water to cover the
> hay, let it set for 3 days,
> and the water will have hundereds of thousands of
> protozoa. If the bacteria
> on the hay stems grows really fast, you get mostly
> ciliates because ciliates do
> best when the water gets oxygen limited. the more
> fastidious flagellates and
> amoebae do better when really aerobic conditions
> remain in place.
>
> So, for most diversity, put the hay into the compost
> bag, and let the
> protozoa be extracted from the hay surface, and get
> into the tea. The protozoa will
> not excyst in the tea and start growing, but they
> will be put out into your
> soil, or onto the leaf surfaces.
>
> What is it that protozoa do for you? Why do you
> care that they are there?
> Testing to see if you all know the answer........
>
> Elaine Ingham
> President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
> www.soilfoodweb.com
> SFI Oregon, USA
> SFI Australia
> SFI New York
> SFI Europe
> SFI New Zealand
>
> "Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that
> things will turn out well,
> but the conviction that what we are doing makes
> sense, no matter how things
> turn out." -- Vaclav Havel, former President of
> the Czech Republic
>
>


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Received on Mon Dec 15 2003 - 18:58:40 EST

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