[compost_tea] pastures

From: <msnow_at_valley.net>
Date: 07 Sep 2004 12:59:50 EDT
Hi All,

I wrote a few weeks ago about an ACT pasture experiment.  We're just about to start, but I'd like some input on one part: plot spacing.

We're going to use just one set of plots (ten 10'x10') in one pasture.  The plan is to pick a monument and draw a transect.  On one side of the line manure/immature compost will be applied, none on the other.  Five plots per side, one getting nothing else, one ACT once this fall, one EM once this fall, one ACT weekly until hard frost/snow, one EM weekly.

Plots will be adjacent to one another.  But a point of conflict: plants can signal microbes some twenty five feet away, as I've been told, nutrients being relayed back.  If the nutrients and/or biology in one plot is requested in another, what use will this all be?  As an example, crabshells put on a garden, cows prefering the grass immediately adjacent to the garden.

Or, do I count on microbes staying put?

What do you all think?  We hope to begin setting up plots late this week, even your quick thoughts are much appreciated.

Mike Snow
The Mountain School
Vershire, Vermont

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