Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

In my case I'm amending with plenty of aged manure anyway (and other things) 
so I'm hesitant about extra salts in the leachate. YMMV

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/24/2010 at 4:11 PM pete wrote:

>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.
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>>Pete
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>>--- 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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