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Compost Tea: Resources for Brewing Your Own

Applications of compost “tea” have been around as long as gardening has been around. Long before science proved the efficacy of compost tea, our forebears just instinctively knew that the substance — biologically active liquid — would have beneficial results in the soil. And while many are still mired in the debate about whether compost tea [...]

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Does Compost Tea Work? A View From the Post

Adrian Higgins, the gardening writer for the Washington Post, has been a good friend to SafeLawns in the past four years — including this rather epic front-page article back in 2007: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091900472.html. In today’s Post, Adrian, a devout organic gardener himself, tackles the age-old question of whether or not compost tea works: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/13/AR2010041303646.html. It’s a subject matter [...]

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Compost Tea: Does It Work, or Not?

I’ve long told the story of my Grandmother, Clarida Van Dyne, and her “manure” tea that she made on her dairy farm in Bradford, Maine. In recent years, as I’ve espoused the virtues of applying compost tea to the landscape to add valuable micronutrients and, most importantly, microbial life to the soil, I’ve had all [...]

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