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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Compost tea vs compost direct on acre
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:44:10 -0400

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:13:21 +0300, you wrote:

>The soil holds probably as many bacteria as it needs to hold. Adding more
>doesn't seem to make sense to me. It's the nutrients that the plants need. I
>would have thought that the slow release of nutrients from the compost is
>what matters. Compost tea would be a quick booster which might get leached
>away by the rain.
>

Some soil probably doesn't have all the bacteria it needs.

Our (so-called) 'soil' here (Pennsylvania Appalachians) is
almost 100% heavy clay in many locations. I don't think
there's *any* life in it.

Pat
--
Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.

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