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  • From: paul simon <paul.simon@tcs.wap.org>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Could 24 hour compost tea help control diseases in fruit trees?
  • Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:06:59 -0500

It looks like a complex process in making the tea. They have quite a bit of discussion taking place and sound like they have faith in it. One place they were comparing apples to citrus to pears.

I guess apple leaf compost might not be the thing to reapply back on the leaves.

Might get a frost in 3 days??? Lima beans still maturing (first crop after drought and heat spell ended).

Paul S. zone 6 , twix Balti und DC.



I asked this question in the sanet-mg mailing list:

"Is 24 hour compost tea effective in controlling fruit tree diseases (i.e.
fireblight, cedar apple rust, etc.)? Since it is cheap and easy to make
in large quantities one could cover an orchard easily with the appropriate spray
equipment or just set up an overhead sprinkler system and introduce the 24HCT
into the irrigation water."

And got this reply from Elaine Ingham of SFI, Inc. (Soil Foodweb), an expert on
making and using 24 hour compost tea:
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/agriculture/composting/compost-tea/discussion-thread1/msg00042.html





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