Dave - A few years back I had a bunch of my preps dessicate in storage. JPI attributed this to my peat moss not being damped. I had never considered damping it, figuring that dry was best. Now I keep it damp and feel that I'm 'supposed to.' I have not had 500 suck up water.
I keep my preps in old timey hinge-topped mason jars, with the rubber removed. I keep the jars closed but not latched. The idea is that, without the rubber, the jars provide 'just the right amount of aeration..' -Allan >At 12:00 PM 8/18/02 -0400, Merla wrote: >>The terra cotta pots and wet peat moss are for storing little tiny >>ziplocks of Bio-Dynamic preparations. It is most important to keep the >>organisms in the prep alive. I have a big pot with moss in it, but >>SStorch's message just informed me for the first time that I should have >>wet the moss. I've probably killed everything because it's really arid >>here in August even in my root cellar. > >Not so. We typically store in boxes lined with dry peat moss. One >time, I used damp peat around a terra cotta pot. It turns out that >prep 500 is hygroscopic, sucks up water like a sponge. The prep >turned into soup and was ruined. Do other folks have comments? >I recall one post that a low-cost storage device is to buy one of >those plastic-wrapped bales of peat moss. Cut a slice off the top >on three sides, so that the 4th side serves as a hinge and the top >slice is a couple of inches thick. Hollow out holes in which to put >your prep containers. Set the top back in place and store -- a root >cellar would be fine. > > > >========================== >Dave Robison
