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Use your senses to test compost quality
By Ann Lovejoy
The best way I know to reinvigorate artificial or exhausted soils is to inoculate them with an aerobically brewed compost tea. These teas are concentrates that can contain billions of beneficial soil biota in a single teaspoon.
Valley is brewing up something special
By Carrina Stanton, North Kitsap Herald, August 20, 2003
Think of it as a latte stand for your garden. But please, don't drink it yourself. This month, Poulsbo's Valley Nursery installed a SoilSoup dispenser at its Bond Road location.
SoilSoup nourishes the ground
By Liz Douville July 2003
Now through technology, motivated by concerns of the overuse of chemical fertilizers, a new soup has hit the market — SoilSoup from Seattle, Washington. SoilSoup is a compost tea using worm castings, with a pinch of this and a pinch of that. The process is what makes it different.
Compost, manure teas are easy to make, may suppress diseases
By Nancy Szerlag / Special to The Detroit News July 19, 2003
Several readers e-mailed asking about compost tea -- the magic liquid fertilizer. Compost and manure teas have been used as liquid fertilizers for hundreds of years. They're easily made by adding a shovel full of compost or manure into a bucket of water, and letting the potion steep until the water turns the color of tea.
Organic garden is easy to do
By Corvallis Gazette/Times
Friendly fungi, Soil Soup add back what the earth may be lacking Organic gardening has never been easier than it is right now. With the introduction of several new products over the last few years, you can have plants that are more disease resistant, less likely to suffer transplant shock, more drought resistant and just generally healthier
Creative lawn treatments give a boost to spring green
By Ann Lovejoy
If you have a lot of lawn, consider aerobically brewed compost tea like SoilSoup. A local company that helped pioneer the compost tea revolution, SoilSoup's continuous-brew machine produces 10 gallons of tea every half hour, day in and day out.
Buttercups and horsetail are signs there's clay in your soil
By Ann Lovejoy
Find a nearby nursery that makes aerobically brewed compost tea like SoilSoup and begin a monthly spray program for plants, lawn, beds and borders.
Great new garden gadgets
By MARY CAMERON FREY STAFF REPORTER, CHICAGO SUN TIMES
Home gardeners now can brew the same concentrated, highly nutritious compost tea organic farmers are brewing. Seattle-based SoilSoup Inc. has introduced a 61/2-gallon compost tea brewing system suitable for lawns and backyard gardens.
Compost tea refreshes stressed plants
By BILL RICHARDS The Wall Street Journal
Compost tea, an increasingly popular gardening solution that Carol Johanson says made her bushes perk right up. "It was like giving them a tasty meal, a glass of wine, and a good rest," says Johanson, who gardens on Washington's Puget Sound.
The strongest plant disease fighter
By Pam Baxter, Vegetable Column
How would you like to have zillions of tiny PAC-Man-like creatures in your garden, gobbling up disease organisms and fungi that have the potential to attack your vegetables? It’s possible with fermented compost tea.
For Gardeners, A New Homebrew
By Wall Street Journal
Commercial nurseries have long used liquid fertilizers, but only recently have they caught on with home gardeners, who can now buy home brewing kits from makers like SoilSoup...