Compost tea

[MaracujA]

I was reading a relevant paper and thought I’d link it somewhere on the fruit forum. I linked it on a different thread but I think it actually goes better here.

Is weed tea worth the effort?

I was curious about compost tea because a local farmer I greatly admire swears by it to suppress brown rot in his apricots. He has a separate fertilization program—the compost tea doesn’t factor into it. I was actually surprised to learn (from this thread) that many see compost tea as fertilizer primarily. Anyway, I decided to look at the research (I am a data wonk, can’t help it). I did not get very far (distractions), but I did easily find evidence for compost tea’s ability to suppress diseas…