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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:16 pm 
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I need lots of compost fairly quick. Buying it at 4.00 a bag is expensive. My question is if take hay like alfalfa or peanut, run it through a chipper-shredder, add some cow manure and dried molasses, will this make a good compost?


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:38 pm 
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If you need lots quickly, I suggest going with compost tea. You can stretch your 1 cubic foot of compost into enough tea to cover 37,000 square feet.

Read more and download free plans for Bruce Deuley's 5-gallon tea maker at my website http://dchall.home.texas.net/organic/teamaker/.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:29 pm 
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David, probably a dumb question but is there a such of thing as applying too much compost tea?


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There doesn't seem to be. I suppose you could wash away your soil :shock:

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Yea, I need to keep my soil, God quit making that a long time ago.


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I use gallons of diluted aerobic tea brews sometimes 2-3 times a week, during the hottest summer months on all my heavy feeders like sweet, okra, and elephant ears.

I apply it mostly as a foliar/soil drench using a mere cup or bottle and a bucket, all over my garden beds and lawn.

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