In a message dated 3/9/03 5:20:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Hi Steve - great post - great holiday too I bet! > The green house is filling up with flats of newly seeded trays. This week I > will go in and spray with a bc tea laced with trace minerals. Can you tell us exactly how you make the trace element fortified BC - lack of attention to trace element nutrition is one of the major problems suffered by BD. In a batch of five five gallon buckets I use about five shovels of trace minerals, sometimes I mix differnt types, three pounds of ground oyster or egg shell.
What do you use as source of traces? Summa Minerals [basalt] CA, paramagnetic basalt 8000 cfm Ontario What special measures do you take to maintain the microbial integrity of your BC? . This would be valuable information for many on the list. I store some bc in the wet peat boxes outside or in the root cellar, some bc stays in the pits in the earth where it is made and I make a new pit and reuse other when empty. >This afternoonI will spray the thousand yards of leaves delivered to the farm by the town with equisetum, bc, and 500. > Our local town council gathers fallen leaves over autumn, I am investigating the cost of getting them delivered, almost exclusively london plane trees is this worthwhile? >> The town delivers to us for free. Some trucks are sent from the recycling center, some direct from clean-up. Those are fine leaves, get 'em. sstorch
