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Sustainable gardening group

Well, I for one would join a sustainable gardening group. I am a big believer and user of compost tea in my soil gardens for the past three years, after hearing Dr. Elaine Ingham speak at a Territorial Seed Co. weekend seminar on compost tea. In fact, compost tea practioners are like a part of a growing religious movement. You get evangelical in promoting it once you use it. Just ask Jeff Lowenfels, he is one of the leading proponents, speaker and presenter of compost tea. Just last weekend he came down to Oregon and gave a presentation on it at Territorial Seed Co.'s annual Gathering of Gardeners in Cottage Grove, Oregon.

Once you use freshly brewed, oxygenated compost tea, your garden and gardening practices will never be the same. Some of the big chemical companies are getting into compost tea or supplying the components of compost tea brewing because they see the scientific handwriting on the wall. Chemicals are going to be very out of fashion for gardeners once compost tea is experienced by mainstream gardeners and garden writers start to report and write about it. Black leaf and mildew on roses? A thing of the past if you use compost tea religiously every two weeks. This is just one example of the benefits of using compost tea as a foliar spray. The bacteria and fungi in the compost tea act as a barrier to the spores of black leaf and mildew. They can't penetrate this barrier and roses flourish with lush growth and no ugly black spots and leafless stems. The Oregon Garden in Silverton, OR. is using it on all their roses and it shows.

So count me in on any sustainable working group of GWA or of this list.

For more info than you probably want on compost teas click to:

http://www.soilfoodweb.com
http://www.simplici-tea.com/
http://www.alaskahumus.com/

We are going to be reporting in Growing Edge magazine on the use of compost teas in hydroponics and greenhouses but it is in more widespread use in outdoor soil based gardening and agriculture.

Tom Alexander, Publisher
Growing Edge Magazine
PO Box 1027
Corvallis, OR. 97339
541-745-7773
http://www.growingedge.com
tom@growingedge.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Jacqueline Heriteau
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Friendly worms or killer worms???


Dear Doreen,
Thanks for forwarding this...I am totally with you about GWA..years ago suggested the way to get a voice for garden writers was for the president to take official positions on stuff...no luck for obvious reasons.
We can't expect industry to give us free drinks and dinners and trips if we attack them.
One of the things that bugs me now and then is that the crappiest writers about gardening are the ones commerce picks up and makes famous and thus spokesperson for the group while knowledgeable people are often ignored..
Could we get a movement going within GWA to advocate sustainable gardening practices....which would present a positive platform to air negative truths. Who would be part of it? Who would have the nerve to head it? Jeff Ball once had a connection to Rodale.
and, what is a rain garden?
Jacqui

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