Re: [compost_tea] same recipe - compost free in water

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:05:49 EST

The bottom line with putting compost into the tea free, and then straining or
running through a pump of some kind is to document that you don't lose your
fungi by doing that. Straining the tea means loss of fungi as the fungi pass
through the accumulating organic matter on the strainer surface.

Using a pump means it must be checked to see what the pump does to the
organisms. Some pumps don't harm the organisms, some pumps are just terrible in
what they do to critters. How do you know? The only way is to test the tea that
you are spraying out, after it has gone through all equipment, etc. If
organism biomass is great, then you are in-like-Mike. If organism biomass is low,
then you have to play detective and figure out WHERE you are losing your
critters.

You CANNOT just assume that the critters are getting through the brewing
process just because the water has a nice color.

Elaine Ingham
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