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The soil food web is a term used to encompass the biological realm in the soil under our feet. There's another universe down there. It is estimated that up to 500,000 bacteria can fit in the period of the exclamation point at the end of this sentence!
There are billions of microbes and thousands of feet of fungal hyphae in a mere teaspoon of our biological inoculant Earth Compound (formerly Genesis Compound).
A teaspoon of native grassland soil contains 600-800 million bacteria comprising ~10,000 species, plus approximately 5,000 species of fungi, the mycelia of which could be stretched out for several miles. In the same teaspoon, there may be 10,000 individual protozoa of over 1,000 species, plus 20-30 different nematodes from as many as 100 different species.
The book Secrets of the Soil says that a single microbe reaching maturity and dividing within less than half an hour in ideal conditions, can, in the course of a single day, grow into 300 million more, and in another day to more than the number of human beings that have ever lived.
Further, according to the book Microcosmos, bacteria, in four days of unlimited growth, could outnumber all the protons and even the quarks estimated to exist in the universe.
Truly unbelievable.
Modern society has gotten caught up in making artificial fertilizers that serve to stimulate a growth response in plants, but they're really only making them obese.
Microbes make plant food…period. In addition, microbes are responsible for creating balanced soil, helping plants eat, protecting them from pests and disease, and many other helpful functions that have yet to be discovered. Investigating this universe and researching how to develop healthy microbial populations in your garden can seem complicated, but we've made it easy.
Introducing...Compost Tea in a Box!
Compost tea is a living solution. It is the act of growing microbes in an aerated solution with food sources and mineral catalysts.
When fed and aerated, beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and all of their microscopic friends contained in the soil food web begin to replicate to extraordinary concentrations.
The concept is really no different than keeping an aquarium. You have to aerate water and feed your fish to keep them alive, same with microbes. The Compost Tea in a Box! kit is designed to be accomplished with a simple air pump and 5 gallon bucket.
Every gardener deserves an experience with a genuine living solution. After all, you can't buy this kind of solution on a shelf. Packaging the microbes in a non-aerated container kills them over short periods of time. Now you can make it at home and use directly in your soil or hydroponic garden and watch your plants thrive.
Compost tea can be created in unlimited ways. There is still so much left to discover. Start with our recommendations, years of research and trial & error have gone into creating our formulas. Rest assured your garden has never seen anything like it.
THOUGHTS ON COMPOST TEA: •Compost tea can and should be used in ALL growing situations
•Compost tea acts as a fertilizer, disease control, pest control, and so much more!
•Beneficial microbes cannot be purchased alive from a bottle on a shelf
•Use compost tea as soon as possible after brewing...after 48 hours most microbes are no longer alive
•The book on compost tea has not yet been written...experiment!
Compost tea is both a fertilizer and a living solution. The "fertilizer" comes from the food sources (Earth Syrup, Earth Kelp) and mineral catalysts (Earth Tonic) and the living solution, or microbes, come from the biological inoculant (Earth Compound).
However, compost tea is not the same as a general fertilizer, especially artificial fertilizers. Often times, artificial fertilizers contain industrial byproducts that do not represent food for microbes and are very harsh on them and on plants. Artificial fertilizers can even "burn" plants when used at too high of a concentration.
A plant "burn" is when the edges of plants show signs of stress and the leaves wither. It is actually a water stress.
When too much fertilizer is used outside the root zone of a plant it sucks water out of it via osmosis |
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