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Montoursville, PA

Just a reminder if you live in suburbia like me you can still feed it to your compost pile. Over four or five days without rain I was able to dump and till it into my compost.

There are no words for the odor I whooped up with the warm weather helping. It had to go before the neighbors got a sniff of my wonderful stuff.

Tried to temper it with a couple of tricks with no success. It was a good run at the best stinker I ever brewed.

I won't start another now until cooler weather. :)

8/22/2003 10:07:21 AM

Ontario, Canada.

How long do you let the brew stew? Days? Foilar application or drench?

8/22/2003 10:50:07 AM

Montoursville, PA

No foot has been within the patch since we buried the leaves. All my supportive feeding is all foilar. If I want to push a little I treat and let dry. Treat and let dry. Treat and let dry. The drying period most days is just fifteen minutes. You can increase and decrease modestly this way. I keep all applications to the lower ends of suggested application. I can always doctor up. It is hard to doctor down from a to much position.

I also alternate fish and kelp diluted in rate per weekly desired dose fed daily. My whole program is daily to avoid spurts. This includes water application when needed.

8/22/2003 11:14:35 AM

Montoursville, PA

I start using my tea sometimes the same day I start a new batch. This, to me, is not rocket science. It is getting a little good stuff there to support whatever else is going on.

8/22/2003 11:16:23 AM

wilmington,ma.

What do you use for tea???

8/22/2003 2:29:17 PM

Montoursville, PA

A fifty five gallen drum. A tea bag using a grain feed bag half full of manure. Days I feed there is always a half cup in the bottom of the sprayer or misting feeder bottle. That goes in. Mostly that would be fish and kelp. A handfull of any organic fertilizer I have left over from flower beds and yard. This time I had some real fish ground up in the blender. Think this is what made the major stink. It 'aint rocket science here. Just the manure would make a good tea. It does save and preserve for future use nearly all that I use. I use very little if any synthetic fertilizer. Absolutely none ever goes in the tea in measurable amounts.

You need a lid or mosquito larva killer. An ounce of any liquid kitchen cooking oil will stop the mosquitos from hatching. An ounce of kerosine is OK. If you dip from the top the oil needs to be replaced from time to time.

If you see an alligator the mix is to thin. Everything else is OK :)

8/22/2003 3:11:48 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Dwaine if it smelled that bad then the "good stuff" was sorely absent anyhow. But the compost pile probably wouldn't mind much. Is there any way you could run a cooling coil in there?

Steve

8/22/2003 5:39:37 PM

State Of Jefferson

do you add any air to your tea while brewing?

8/22/2003 10:53:15 PM

Montoursville, PA

I had a fish tank bubbler. It quit. It was not much of a loss. I now purchase fish and kelp. When the hot weather causes difficulty I just hang it up for awhile.

8/23/2003 12:31:12 AM

Oz

take black "slit" drain pipe $25. dont untie the coil. tie loose rope where the tight ones are. lay coil on plastic and hardware mesh,,,, add peat,black humus,red wigglers(vance saffels, englewood,tennessee), water,pucky,lime,etc,,, cut the tight ropes. add more , and let sit. put a cap on it and a stack. flood every day into the top of the coil till funk smell is gone. and keep an eye on temp,,,plastic can get real hot. you can set this up to drains or pipes to go direct to plant root/s.
if you wrap the coil with hardware mesh you can add food scraps. like rye bread,old pumpkins,pizza,etc. you can get a poly tub big enough to hold this composter/digester.some come with drain valves. this is a old design of mine that was smaller for urban life.it is part of next years irrigation "system". concider this info "share ware".
i like prizes and seeds.best of luck!

8/23/2003 1:30:57 AM

Oz

you can fill a coil of corrigated drain pipe(non slit),with water. wrap it with fiberglass. have foamboard underneath. clear plastic on top.
this water got hot enough to have melted the foamboard.
i might try a early spring "solar hill",next year. yukon,,,this might help you.. again shareware..prizes and seeds.im going to use slit pipe as flood pipe along the vines. so much work just to relax!!!

8/23/2003 1:42:36 AM