[compost_tea] Re: Tea and powdery mildew
Dave,
I do agree with your stated hypothesis. We have been building our
worm population and have not harvested any compost from them yet. I
have been buying castings from a supplier that feeds them grain of
some sort (secret?) and peat moss. This would make their diet high
in carbon but (I think) lacking nitrogen. I buy the partially
finished vermicompost from a supplier who feeds horse manure and
bedding wood chips and sawdust complimented by grocery store produce
throw aways.
I feed my worms peat moss, cardboard, horse manure, alfalfa meal,
old hay, green plants from our experimental beds and AEM (activated
EM) soaked kitchen waste. We have them in bins as well as in a
windrow which we have just moved inta a small barn built for this
purpose. We have two bins ready to harvest in about a week.
Regards,
Titel
--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, David Anderson <squtch@g...>
wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:35:02 -0000, Titel Ryzhomer
> <thegoodjob_at_h...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Except Titel is not using any plants; only the ingredients he
stated.
> >
> > Titel
>
> What do you feed your worms?
>
> Even if you feed them manure instead of plant material, what
plants do
> you feed your manure producers.
>
> If you feed them only cardboard, that probably varies enough from
what
> most of us feed our worms that it would be worth looking into.
>
> The point is that when looking for the cause of the action, you
should
> not be concentrating soly on the biology, but you should also
consider
> the chemical and physical.
>
> Dave
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