Re: [compost_tea] some recipes please

From: David Attwater <nativefreshwaterfish_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:07:59 +1100
thanks elaine. how much water and how long should I brew it before use.
thanks again. dave.

>From: soilfoodweb_at_aol.com
>Reply-To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
>To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [compost_tea] some recipes please
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 02:51:10 EST
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>Could anyone please post some of their recipes and brew times for  ACT.
>I would love to give them a  go.
>Thanks.
>Dave.
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>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)
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>For extra fungal punch, add a half cup of pablum
>
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>Alternative ingredients:
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>Instead of kelp:
>algae (e.g., blue-green cyanobacteria), rock dusts or rock flours,
>paramagnetic material
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>Instead of humic acid:  Use Neptune's Harvest or Organic Gem fish
>hydrolysates, protein meals like alfalfa meal, soy meal, oatmeal, barley
>meals,  etc.
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>If you are worried about contamination, try EM, citric acid, orange  oil
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>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
>



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