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What is the difference?

12/6/2006 10:32:54 AM

Pocatello (cliffwarren@yahoo.com)

This is one place where we need to be specific.

That is, if you go to www.soilsoup.com you'll see the product that the Wallace's used. This looks to me to be an aerobic compost tea making system. Its a bucket and a pump and some "stuff", and whatever else you need to brew your own tea. This is ACT, of whatever recipe that is in the bottle.

If you went to the local nursery in my town and asked for "Soil Soup", you'd get a bottle of liquid fertilizer. I believe the ingredients are organic. This is not ACT.

That's at least two products out there using the name Soil Soup. There are probably others.

12/6/2006 11:50:49 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Compost Tea is a sort of generic term that many experts woukld like to see go away since it umbrellas virtually every tea made from steeping compost.

Soil Soup is an anaerobic tea that favors the developemnt of bacteria. We need bacteria so this is good.

Aerobic Compost Tea (ACT) uses the same process but employs the use of (usually) an oxygenation streem of bubbles. This process favors fungal developement, arthropods, etc. We need this too so this is also good.

To get both elements we just need to adjust the use of a decent CT brewer & the ingredients IE brew with & without air using compost that is either "light fluffy & woody" or higher in bacteria like older & vermicompost rich blended.

12/6/2006 4:10:52 PM