Re: [compost_tea] some recipes please

From: butch ragland <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:04:40 -0800 (PST)
The aztec used product they gathered from constructed
waterways. I've been wondering about that as addition
to a tea recipe.
--- soilfoodweb_at_aol.com wrote:



>
> Could anyone please post some of their recipes and
> brew times for  ACT.
> I would love to give them a  go.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
>
>
> 10 pounds of compost (mix of 75% worm, 25% thermal
> composts)
> 1 pound of kelp (Maxi-Crop, Acadian, Sea Kelp, or
> check the label
>                     to  make sure no toxic levels of
> anything)
> 1 gallon humic acid (Hydrahume, Terra Vita, Horizon
> Ag or Turf Pro
>                      liquid  products all seem to
> work really well)

> For extra fungal punch, add a half cup of pablum

> ------------------------------
> Alternative ingredients:

> Instead of kelp: 
> algae (e.g., blue-green cyanobacteria), rock dusts
> or rock flours, 
> paramagnetic material

> Instead of humic acid:  Use Neptune's Harvest or
> Organic Gem fish 
> hydrolysates, protein meals like alfalfa meal, soy
> meal, oatmeal, barley meals,  etc.

> If you are worried about contamination, try EM,
> citric acid, orange  oil


> did I forget anything? 

> Elaine R.  Ingham
> Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
> Soil Foodweb Inc., Port  Jefferson, New York
> Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
> Soil Foodweb  Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
> Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan,  Mexico
> Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
> Soil Foodweb Inc., South  Africa
>
>


=====
Butch Ragland
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cocaine, alcohol, cigarettes,etc
I'm sorry to report that
cooperation is not

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