Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[pete <pete.rout@virgin.net>]

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