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  • From: Robert Norsen <bob@bnbrew.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Compost tea vs compost direct on acre
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 23:07:50 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Ken - When you spread compost on your field that is good.  2 tons per acre will have some effect
on building the soil, producing a crop.  If you look close you can see this amount of compost after spreading it.  You will have the bacteria present in  4,000 lbs of compost.  If it rains soon enough some will enter the soil. Some will live.   None will apply to the foliage. 
 
If you put 15 POUNDS of compost in a 50 g bewer in 20+ hours you will have extracted the live bacteria from the compost, mutiplied  it by 10,000 in that time,  now you can put that on your acre.  The 15 lbs now is as many bacteria as would be in  37 tons of compost,  in a liquid it is likely to live in / on the soil and also on the foliage.  The Bacteria and fungi will make the nutrients already in  your soil available to your crop in addition to the sometimes critical trace nutrients in the Compost
If you think it is a lot of work to make the compost tea 1 hour, and apply 1 hour,  compared that to the work of spreading the 2 tons compost on your acre,  have to it.  (Not using a $40K spreader truck.)    
 
Compost TEA was by promoted by lazy farmers wanting to escape poverty and who heard Elaine.    
2 tons of compost cost is  - $ 200 - $400  ?  + Labor  ???                                                       $500?
15 lbs compost,  $ 1.25, Nutrients,  $ 10.00 ?   Brewer prorated per brew,   $ 1.00 Labor       $53?
 
Effect on the crop???   Who wants to guess that one??                                       Bob 
 
High - I bet this will bring out a bunch of math experts.  My  math is a quicky.  Bob   
Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Readers,
 
I have made compost tea but it occurred to me that everything in the compost tea is from the compost.   If I put the compost in the growing bed, the plant still gets it and I do not have to do all that work.  Nature does not make compost tea and the prairie, jungle and forest all do quite well. 
 
Any advantages?  I have heard it repels insects?
 
Ken Hargesheimer



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