[compost_tea] Re: CT and soiless media
---Elaine, Which lab tested Mark Highland and Chandrappa Gangaiah's
ACT? How often,etc.? What standard methods were used? Dennis Kemnitz
\In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
>
>
> A graduate student that I work with, Mark Highland, is just
finishing up his
> master's thesis, and it is clear from his work that standard
potting mix is
> only barely equal to a properly made, GOOD, AEROBIC compost.
>
> What defines the good aerobic compost? the presence of the
aerobic BIOLOGY.
>
>
> I will be at his thesis defense early next week, and look forward
to his
> publications soon to come.
>
> Another graduate student at Kansas State University, Chandrappa
Gangaiah, a
> student with Ed Carey in Horticulture, has CLEARLY shown that
AERATED compost
> tea is every bit as effective as major fungicides at preventing
disease.
>
> So much for people who want to claim we haven't been doing
replicated
> scientific studies. Science takes time, and can't be forced to
move forward faster
> just because someone wants to gripe.
>
> Good work takes time.
>
>
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