> > >To: All concerned >From: Jerry Brunetti > >I read your e-mail of 3/7/02 re: equisetum to create an optimum tea. >How much dried horsetail per gallon of tea are you using? We have a >35 gallon tank and are including cereal straws and oak bark, as well >as misc. sugars, starches, kelp, etc to also grow the bacteria. We >are getting very good fungal counts, but Think much of that is from >the fact that 1/3 of our compost is derived from composted deciduous >leaves, bark and twigs. Where are you having your analysis done- at >SFI? It's clear that straw, bark, and horsetail all have high >levels of silica witch apparently suppresses/deters disease fungus, >while simultaneously encouraging healthy fungus. Another example of >Amphoteris forces at work.