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

["Frank Teuton" <fteuton AT sympatico.ca>]

APC is what exactly, 'aerobic pile compost'?

When drawing my compost samples for tea making, I try to draw them from as
many different charactered materials as I can find, now from a pile with a
certain amount of clay in the leaf-grassclippings-wood chips mix, now from a
pile with more wood chips than the others, now from a set of vermicomposts
of several ages and moisture levels. Always aiming for more diversity.

Re the tumbler, what exactly do you expect it will do for your composting?
The device is small and will only make hot compost during warm periods,
although if you have palms, I guess that is pretty much all the time, eh?

Thorough shredding and mixing of the materials is still needed for best
results, as well as close attention to the moisture and C:N things.

Forking that amount of material every day is not really much more effort
than turning the tumbler, in my humble 46 year old opinion.

Frank Teuton---just applied a few cubic yards of leaves and grass clippings
to his pallet piles....First they heat, then the worms eat


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Jaszewski" <tomj AT lvcm.com>
To: <Compostteas AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Compostteas] Re: Compostteas pump


> >
> > We are purchasing a "compost tumbler" to culture our source material.
> > We have ordered the "original". http://www.compostumbler.com/sizes.html
> >
> > We will be innoculating the material and experimenting with developing a
> > consistent "compost". I remain convinced that a combination of APC and
> > vermicompost will provide us with the ideal material. I am reluctant to
> > change source materials since we have gotten fantastic partial
inhibition
> > assays with the APC.