On Friday I took some more pictures of the trays of Borage. The first picture is of the tray which has had no Compost Tea.
Borage without Compost Tea.
Two of the seeds have failed to germinate (bottom right of picture), which is a 6% failure rate.
The second picture is of the seeds that have had Compost Tea added to the water.
The germination rate is 100%.
Borage with Compost Tea
It would be great to hold this up as an example of how good Compost tea is, but in reality, two seeds is not that much. I am glad that it worked out this way around though, as it would have sounded like we were making excuses if it were the Compost Tea batch which had some failures.
What is also important to note is that one row of the ‘without’ seeds got some Compost Tea when I was watering on Autopilot one morning, and although I’ve only been using plain water on them, the can has had Compost tea in it, so some of the microbes that are in the tea, will find their way into the ‘without’ modules as well. When I look at the two trays. it looks as if the ‘with’ batch have put on slightly more growth, but it’s not easy to tell yet. Hopefully any difference will be more obvious as time goes on. There has been some slug damage on the ‘with’ batch, but none on the ‘without’ plants. That’s something that warrants some more investigation in the future.
Compost Tea Trial together
My next post will be on the microbes in the soil, and how they interact with plants.
BB