Compost Teas: 24 hour, EM, IM, BD & fermented plant extracts

["Tom Jaszewski" <tomj AT lvcm.com>]

Apparently manure is the source. But whenever we have brewed and tested
compost teas containing manure, they have shown to be very diverse. More
diverse than any of the results with APC or other vegetative composts. We're
learning, and I suspect with better inoculation skills we'll not need
manures.

Our compost tea adventure began in search of disease inhibition. The
results, unpublished and mostly anecdotal, have been astounding from my
view. Those teas have been very bacterial and fungal extraction has eluded
us.

Perhaps when all is said and done, E. coli will be an innocuous part of the
diversity? We'll see!


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lowenfels [mailto:jeff AT gardener.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 1:40 PM
To: Tom Jaszewski
Subject: RE: [Compostteas] Re: E. coli and compost tea


For starters, do you have to have manure in compost?  Is this from whence
most of the E. Coli problem originates?

Cheers,

Jeff

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