Re: [compost_tea] cleaning brewers

From: Erin Hunt <violetwoodjack_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:03:02 -0700 (PDT)

Hello,
I am new to the group, a gardener who uses Soil Soup tea in my perennial garden maintenance business in the Portland area. I recently received my copy of Dr.Ingham's
Compost Tea manual and noted that substituting a nylon bag for the fabric bag provided improved the quality of the tea, but are there other ways to alter the use of the contraption so that it produces a better product? As a side note, since this is my first season with the tea, I do not charge my customers for the tea, they are willing participants as I observe the gardens this season, and I use the tea on both perennials and small backyard kitchen gardens.
 
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions, Erin

soilfoodweb_at_aol.com wrote:
What size do you want, Dennis? I like the KIS machines as easy to clean. The Norsen brewers. Eco-brewers. Charlie Clarke brewers. Nature Tech brewers. EPMs. In that order.....
 
Bunches of one-person operation brewers on the market that have not been tested to my knowledge for whether they do a decent job of making tea, so I'd be careful baout them.
 
For those of you who were at the last ICTC meeting, remember the teas that we were looking at with the small microscope at the demo? The Soil Soup "liquid compost" had nothing but insect larvae and anaerobic bacteria. Doesn't matter what the cleaning time might be, it isn't really anything related to compost.
 
But the other teas - wow, they were great, huh? Lots of fungi, good bacteria, protozoa. Good tea. Easy to see that would give you the critters you want in your soil, or on your leaves.
 
Always ask for data from someone asking money from you for their tea maker.
 
Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institue Cambridge, New Zealand
Soil Foodweb Inc., Hilversum, The Netherlands
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho


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