[compost_tea] Re: Adding Lime/Calcium to Soil
I am buying a commercial product from a sustainable agricultural inputs
supplier here in Costa Rica that is marketed as Cal-Si-Mag. The product
is made by putting fresh cow manure, calcium carbonate and Magnesium in
the 4 to 1 proportion and Silica in a sealed drum. The anaerobic
microorganisms chelate the minerals. I have applied this product to my
compost tea. My main observation is that the product, which I buy in a
one gallon container still smells slightly like cow manure, so I add one
half pint at the beginning and one half pint after 12 hours. The other
ingredientes are compost, vermicompost, fish hydrolizate, humic acids
and molasses. I have had very limited and controlled disease stress on
my spice crops.
Henry
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