[compost_tea] Re: soil chemistry facts

From: dakesian1 <dakesian_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:41:25 -0000
Dr. Ingham:  Are you saying that most parent material has enough
nutrients to never need supplementation except for compost, or
compost tea?

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
> Thomas -
>
> Parent material is the mineral fraction of the soil.  This is a
standard soil
> term. 
>
> I did not say that there is an inconsequential amount of nutrients
in 1 to 3
> tons of compost.  Please re-rread my e-mail. 
>
> When you consider soil that has less than 0.5% organic matter in
it, and you
> need to have the total set of nutrients or even the exchangeable
nutrients
> turned into available nutrients for the plants, you either have to
add compost,
> with all of the great sets of available nutrients in it, or (!)
you have to add
> compost so the great set of diverse organisms in it begin the job
of
> solubilizing the massive set of nutrients locked up in the soil
parent matterial.
>
> You are trying to make it sound as if I was arguing against
compost, when my
> message was nothing of the kind. 
>
> I don't like when someone tries to get argumentative, and tries to
tell me I
> am saying something that I never said!  Please stop doing that.
>
> The organisms - whether from compost, or compost tea, will
solubilize the
> massive set of total nutrients tied up in plant-not-available
forms in the soil. 
>
> The point of my message was that INORGANIC FERTILIZER is
absolutely a waste
> of people's money, except for that short period of time when you
are trying to
> get the organisms established, and have to have soluble nutrients
present for
> your plants don't die of lack of available nutrients. 
>
> 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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