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  • From: pete <pete.rout@virgin.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] compost tea
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:11:53 +0000

It seems to me to be a very expensive way of making a liquid fertiliser. For a very long time people have been soaking manure in water and using the leachate as a very good fertiliser.

Pete



--- On Thu, 1/21/10, livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org

re: Compost tea

For what it's worth, I do use the compost tea. It's oxygenated the entire time by virtue of being circulated through a cheap sump-pump and back into the 55-gallon barrel. There's so many bubbles in there, I don't know what else you could do to aerate it.

The compost is held in a burlap bag inside the 55 gallon drum. Otherwise, you plug up the sump pump. I suppose you could use what they call a "trash pump" for dirty sump water, but I just used a conventional pump.

Once you're done aerating it (some ppl recommend 24 full hours, but I just do it for half a day) then you can apply at a rate of 55 gallons does about 1,000 row feet MOL. Use a regular garden hose fitting, brass.

I had good results on everything I applied the tea on.

Just my 2 cents.

Bobby G
Central Wisc. USA





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