Lecture Topics:
Compost Tea: Snake Oil or Plant Elixir
An objective look at compost tea, and also the broader issue of how scientific hypotheses are validated, or not. After going over the essentials – what is compost tea and its potential uses – we’ll move on to a discussion of aerated compost tea, as currently recommended in some circles. Theoretically, does it make sense, and, in practice, has it proved effective in the laboratory, in the greenhouse, in the field?
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