Tomatoes Love Their Tea

Enhancing sustainability of a processing tomato cultivation system by using bioactive compost teas
Scientia Horticulturae 2016
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304423816300814

In a 2 year study, an Italian research team has shown that aerated compost tea helps tomatoes yield more, resist disease, and helps them initiate more root growth.  The researchers used 4 different types of compost, of which the manure based compost showed higher amounts of available nutrients, while the green-waste based compost helped initiate more root growth. 

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