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Author: | Eden's Garden [ Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:27 pm ] |
Post subject: | Manure Tea Rates |
I have a few friends with some ranch land and access to manure - go figure - and I've bout convinced them to make manure tea to use as fertilizer, but I'm not sure the ratio to give them. I know on small scale a gallon goes about 1,000 sq. ft or so. But what about on acreage when you're talking bout mixing a 55gal drum and diluting it into a sprayer on the back of a tractor - how much should they put out per acre? And, aside from the manure, they'll be using mostly horse manure from very well fed horses with some cattle manure mixed in at times, should they add anything to it or would the microbes in it be sufficient? I did remember to tell them to aerate the tea first, how long is that process effective for before requring a reintro of oxygen again? Thanks for your help on the large scale guys. I'm working on getting them organic, and due to the increased costs of synthethics, I think I have a good edge - considering they have free manure to use. M |
Author: | ranchcop [ Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:57 pm ] |
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It depends on how strong the Tea is. Make sure that the manure has been composted properly. I would follow one of the recipies on this site, mol., humate, ect. and just make a bigger batch. Yes by all means a aerate... 12 hours. The finished product will have a life of about 2 hours. Just dont have a break down in your tractor or spray rig or it will go bad. If you add the Molasses, Humate, ect. I would spray 1 gallon to the acre of tea, usually that would be with 9 gallons or water, or a total of 10 gallons per acre. Hope this helps, Brad www.WatsonRanchOrganic.com |
Author: | Robert D Bard [ Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:50 am ] |
Post subject: | compost tea to the acre |
Use as much as you want. There is no limit. I make aerated compost tea. I have a 500 gal tank and I make a "tea" bag out of burlap bags. I put copost in two bags and brew the "tea" by soaking them in the water. I put about 2 to 3 gals of molasses to feed the bacteria and some liquid humates to nutralize any chemicals in the water. I do this for 2 days and never more that 3 days. I then aerate it for 12 to 24 hours. Last summer I did one hay meadow and ther was no source of water, except for what we could haul. The first two hundred gals of mix was 100 gal of water and 100 gal of aerated compost tea + more molasses, liguid humates and ocean water. The second 200 gals was 200 gals of aerated tea + molasses, liquid humates and seawater. The results were amazing for two reasons. We were in a drought and the 100 % compost tea made the grass hay greener and was nearly twice the volume. Robert D Bard Dr Bob the Health Builder |
Author: | Robert D Bard [ Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:57 am ] |
Post subject: | compost tea |
I forgot to mention that I put 10 gals of this mix to the acre. So 200 gals does 20 acres. I know the recomendations for aerated compost tea is to get it out immediately but that doesn't seem to be such a big deal. One time last year I couldn't get all the tea out at one time so I aerated it for another 5 days and then put it out and we could't tell the difference in production. I wouldn't do this on purpose but I don't think the time is as critical as some would advocate. Robert D Bard |
Author: | Eden's Garden [ Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:31 am ] |
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Thank you guys for the input. I've been busy getting my new store open and am just now having a moment to visit the site. I'm passing along via cut and paste the info so my client will have it straight. Marie |
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