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  • From: "henry walden" <henrywalden@lycos.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] compost tea
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:52:04 -0500 (EST)


This is great, it sounds really effective, simple, and economical. How much
manure are you using, roughly 5 shovels full or so? Steer or horse or other
compost? I suppose any compost would be useful. Especially the fact that a 55
gallon drum covers 1000 feet that's a bunch, how often, etc. ?

Ed





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Subject : Re: [Livingontheland] compost tea
Date : Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:50:38 -0800 (PST)
>From : Bobby G <bobbyg53211@yahoo.com>
To : livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org



--- 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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