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From: Anthony Nelson-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:13 AM
Subject: Re: SFW: Straining Compost
> I've made and repaired plankton nets from an appropriate grade of nylon
> bolting cloth - so
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is genius... you've just moved up to "worth your
weight in gold" status,
'Round here we value genius in terms of "weight in compost"!
Gil
In a message dated 1/16/02 12:34:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I've made and repaired plankton nets from an appropriate grade of nylon
bolting cloth - sorry, can't remember the nomenclature of mesh-sizes and the
name of a British supplier wouldn't be much use to you, but you could try a
I've made and repaired plankton nets from an appropriate grade of nylon
bolting cloth - sorry, can't remember the nomenclature of mesh-sizes and the
name of a British supplier wouldn't be much use to you, but you could try a
biological supplies house or a supplier to the flour-milling or similar
t
Quite a nice strainer is an old pair of panty hose. (preferably without
huge holes!) Put one leg inside the other, and hopefully the holes in one
are covered by the other. Big holes can just be tied with string. Tie the
open end over the spout of the pouring vessel. I use a five gallon "cube"
and
Quite a nice strainer is an old pair of panty hose. (preferably without
huge holes!) put one leg inside the other, and hopefully the holes in one
are covered by the other. Big holes can just be tied with string. Tie the
open end over the spout of the pouring vessel. I use a five gallon "cube"
and
Well, you know, I'm currently dipping water from a spring or catching
it from a roof. Even at best, there's going to be straw, twigs and
'clumps' in water I use. It's important to stir preps in clean water,
I can readily feel the difference when stirring water that has
something other than the
Allan,
Scientists think about filtration on the micrometer
scale. That may be the source of the confusion. I
wondered about that, too, but figured she may be
thinking of Whatman filter paper and not the bits of
cheescloth and related items farmers end up using to
"filter" solutions.
Chris
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Allan Balliett wrote:
> Sorry, Elaine, I cannot understand how you can spray unfiltered
> compost tea. I guess what I'm missing is that you are using compost
> 'socks' that are more failure-proof than mine and you simply don't
> have orifice clogging compost particles in your tea?
>
> thanks
