Compost Almanac

SoilSoup Related Articles & Press Releases

In addition to well-known disease management methods – such as crop rotation, resistant cultivars, ensuring good aeration, planting clean seed, steam pasteurization, soil solarization – new and interesting approaches are being explored to suppress diseases through natural means and to reduce the use of synthetic fungicides.

Compost teas, also known as compost watery extracts or simply compost extracts are gaining increased attention as a crop protection tool for the control of foliar diseases, and as an inoculant to restore or enhance soil microflora. A selection of research from Germany, Japan, Israel, and the United States has shown compost extracts to be effective in the control of the following disease (1):

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