Re: [compost_tea] Tea For Turf?

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:31:48 EST

To deal with moss, you need to be adding plant-available iron. So add a kelp
high in iron in your tea. Just a little kelp - look at some of the recipes
that have been posted in previous threads. Kevin Richardson's post on kelp was
an excellent one recently that dealt with amounts.

Add some fish hydrolysate, if you need to green up the lawn, and some calcium
in the form of rock dust, to help de-flocculate your clays. That relates to
getting rid of the compaction. Check your roots to see how deep they go, and
if your tea is doign a good job, you'll see the roots going down deeper in
just a few weeks.

Then do a soil chemistry and a soil biology test, to see where you need to go
from there.

Elaine Ingham
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