Re: NYT - compost tea goes high tech!

I didn't see anything on the site to indicate that a 5-gallon pail with a
cheap aquarium pump and an airstone wouldn't give similar results. Total
investment required to test my theory is less than $20, and come Spring (Oh,
come Spring!) I'm going to try it.
Maria


> 
> I have had excellent results with the compost made with the soil soup
> machine (http://www.soilsoup.com); others recommend other machines, such as
> Growing Solutions.  Ann Lovejoy (NW garden writer) has written at length
> about how just brewing manure tea in a garbage can introduce harmful
> pathogens to one's garden, but the aerobically brewed tea is much much
> better.  Some nurseries in the Seattle area now sell it by the gallon.
> 
> .
> 
> See:
>> 
>> no - I do it the old fashioned way.  I must admit that the plethora
>> of high tech compost makers crack me up.  A while back the Wall
>> Street Journal had an article on no smell compost buckets for the
>> kitchen and the was another on high speed composters. I put them
>> under the a sucker born every minute catagory; I think one had a
>> heated "oven".
>> 
>> Cheryl
>> --
>> Cheryl Isaak
>> Londonderry, NH
>> AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
>> growing, stitching and reading in NH
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