Re: [compost_tea] Re: Brewing time for soil applications only
My thoughts are sort of evolving as I read your
points.
Looking at a multi-year crop, trees, etc. If there is
a good food web then it could be a problem to add
large quantities of fungal or bacteria populations
that out compete those that are present and working
well. I know this stretches the whole idea. Just
curious.
--- David Anderson <squtch_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. It will increase the critters that are there,
> though probably not
> as much or as quickly as with brewed tea.
>
> The critters in the soil are not likely to travel
> far from the chunks
> of compost that they currently call home.
>
> Liquid tea will quickly deliver very diverse biology
> to the various
> clumps of food that are already present in your
> soil. Most will die
> off, with the exception of those that can feed on
> that clump.
>
> Brewing that tea will increase the numbers and it
> will have given the
> biology time to process many of those nutrients to
> speed up the
> availability for the plants. It will not increase
> the overall
> diversity, if anything it will decrease it. But it
> will put a lot more
> critters in each drop, increasing the odds of the
> right critter
> finding a clump of the right food.
>
> Everything from making hot compost, keeping a worm
> bin, to making ACT
> is just a way to speed up the natural processes.
> They will happen
> anyway, just take a lot longer (as long as nothing
> happens to make it
> go backwards).
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:41:24 -0800 (PST), butch
> ragland
> <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The area has good or adequate biology and it is
> > normally aerobic.
> >
> > We feed this area exactly like a tea except no
> > brewing.
> >
> > Will the food increase the biology.
> >
> > The question is not, is this the fastest way to
> > increase biology. The question is will it increase
> or
> > have little or no effect.
>
=====
Butch Ragland
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