Compost Tea comes to Go Away Farm in 2009

This is our new Growing Solutions Compost Tea System. We will begin applying compost tea to our pasture grasses, orchard, vines and garden in early January. We are also going to use the spray system to spray our oak tree foliage and inject the root systems with Akomite+Compost Tea to hopefully deter some of the oak decline and oak wilt we've experienced. This year alone, we've lost about 5 large old oaks that have simply died within a week or two. Very sad to watch. So, I've determined that we'll go to work and fight the problem with one of the only natural ways I've found.



After doing a lot of Internet research and reading about organic / natural ways to fertilize and stimulate our soils, and replenish the soil of the nutrients that the commercial fertilizers have taken away, I've decided to invest in Growing Solutions Compost Tea System. They are a company out of Eugene Oregon who has been in the business of selling commercial grade compost tea "cookers" (which don't cook, rather agitate), as well as selling a "catalyst" that is mixed with our organic compost and agitated with micro-air bubbles for 24 hours. After the 100 gallons of tea has cooked for 24 hours, we'll mix it with 200 gallons of water and have about a full day to apply it to the soil.




This is the compost tea application trailer I purchased from PBM Sprayers in California, with the assistance of Michael Alms, CEO of Growing Solutions. Michael was very helpful in the specifications of the nozzles, pump and spray configuration as well as involved in the actual ordering and shipping coordination. The sprayer arrived mid December. We plan to apply our first compost tea in about two weeks. The spray rig has a 16 hp Honda Industrial gasoline engine and a diaphragm pump designed to handle pumping liquid with particles.