I need to learn a lot more about it really but one of my first thoughts is how do microbes take to being pushed through a sprayer pump !
Playing with it, but never seem to have time. Probably leaning towards brewing microbe blends as I'm finding getting a really good compost quite difficult. Hope to get to it when we've finished drilling, slurry, fencing, etc etc!
where can I find out more about microbe blends ?
Clive, a few of us Plumbo devotees are trying some of these microbes this year. N fixing bacteria to go in with the liquid starter fertiliser, then bacillus bacteria in with the Flex Foliar Nutrition at normal fungiside timings. This is what Niel Fuller has been demonstrating at Cereals the last two or three years. He is confident that in a normal year, we won't need any fungisides at all. But these bugs are resilient to some fungicides which we can add in if it starts to go pear shaped. Andy put up a slide about his Foliar nutrition trial at the BASE AGM which showed it easily paid for itself, and the bugs are not that expensive, so very exiting if we can get it to work.
The main difference between Steve's and Robert's was that Steve recommended Potassium sulphate which I am not sure paid for itself. This along with the fact that Steve's had Nufol which was more expensive than Foli N meant that Plumbo cam out on top but I think if we had not used PS then the difference would be minimal.