[compost_tea] Re: compost tea, turf and irrigation

From: Steve Diver <steved_at_ncat.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:30:26 -0000

Thanks for the mention, Tom -

For clarity, the Drought Resistant Soils
publication was authored by Preston Sullivan,
former ATTRA specialist.

We started talking about this pub in response
to the '96-'97 drought in the Mid-Atlantic states.

There is a strong correlation between soil
organic matter level and water storage
capacity of soil, as the data in this pub
strongly emphasizes.

Fyi, the ATTRA web page launched a new section
this week on Water Quality & Conservation

http://attra.ncat.org/water_quality.html

It features a section with PowerPoint
presentations on Drought, again, aiming to
address management practices.  Predictions
from global warming and other sources indicate
more regions will experience drought in
the coming years.

The drought presentations were prepared by
Barbara Bellows, another one of our specialists.

On the topic of turf management, also see
this ATTRA publication:

Sustainable Turf Care
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/turfcare.html

There might be physiological mechanisms
induced by compost teas -- and its many
microbial, bioactive and humic components
-- that help turfgrasses become more drought
tolerant.

As I recall there is a paper on influence
of EM (Effective Microorganisms) on drought
stress adapatation in crop plants in the
following book / symposium proceedings. 

See:

Nature Farming and Microbial Applications. 2000. Edited
by Hui-lian Xu, James F. Parr, and Hiroshi Umemura (eds.)
Food Products Press, An Imprint of The Haworth Press,
New York. 402 p.

Regards,
Steve Diver


--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Tom Jaszewski" <tom@l...> wrote:

> All of my data is unavailable for publication, however I
> can assure you that developing a healthy soil food web
> and soil structure has the potential of saving as much as
> 70%. However that level of savings would be on an
> unimproved soil site like we find around tract homes here
> in Las Vegas. As usual some of the best data comes from
> Diver and ATTRA.
>
> http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/drought.html
>




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