Re: [compost_tea] RE: Water AND BD 500 microbe numbers
Thanks Scott for responding,
I have seen the BD 500 in storage and it appeared to me to be of high
quality, your test results confirm that it likely was. I was not aware that
the BD 500 was fungal as well as bacterial.
regards Mike H
> MIKE ASKED "Are you able to share details of the test-ie bacterial cf
fungal
> numbers."
> MIKE - I have some figures from BD500 that was 5 years old when tested.
> AB 232, TB unknown, AF 19, TF 688
> new batch of BD500
> AB 48, TB 2704, AF 33.1, TF 217
> Although this is not as good as Alaska Humus (if my memory serves me
right),
> its not too bad when you consider how BD is made ( new sloppy cow manure
> stuffed into cow horns and buried a yard deep for 6 months).
> The statement of mine you quoted I realise was wrong. The best test
results
> I've seen came from compost made WITH THE ADDITION OF BIODYNAMIC
> PREPARATIONS. I buy this compost from the maker and add a kg to my CT
bag
> along with 3 other types of compost.
> BD 500 is very expensive at $110 per kilo so you wouldn't use it in CT
>
>
> > I live near an ex biodynamic farm and frankly the results I have seen
> (weed
> > populations pasture growth etc) have not been noteworthy and do nothing
> for
> > giving me confidence in the system. I am sure there are benefits from
> using the system though.
> Biodynamic farming in Australia is a very big industry. Not considered
> voodoo by 1000's of farmers using these methods :-) !!!
>
> If Ted has read this far . . .
> He writes "It is all eco-babble. Glacier water? Why not next use lunar
> dust?"
> Very funny. I obviously didn't explain things well enough to get my point
> across. I shall continue using basalt dust in my teas and my compost heaps
> knowing that it will be very beneficial to the microbes in my soil.
> Could I humbly suggest that some of you in this group who live in the
> Northern Hemisphere take the opportunity during the darkest and most
> miserable days of your winter to read up about biodynamics and also
> paramagnetism. If a change of thinking and practises comes about I'm sure
> your LOCAL microbes will love you for it :-)
>
> Scott Alexander
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