Haha! Heya Stringfellow… that made me giggle… 🙂 and I do think we are going a wee off the books again topic
I do strongly believe is both. I am no gardening guru compared to Charles… there will be microbes in every form of compost.
the method 1) is like what I believe most gardeners embark on in general while method 2) is like getting into the nitty gritty details of “creating more microbes”?
If you read Masanobu Fukuoka´s book One Straw Revolution… he pretty much advises one to just observe how nature works…
I have tried using compost tea (even soaking compost in water – this compost m referring to is not the comfrey and nettle) and it occurred to me that it just doesn’t really make any sense when I could just put the compost directly on the beds It is like just “double work”.. Our compost heap contains all compostable materials, newspapers, horse manure, etc
Ha! Moral of the story… read and follow Charles books and we wont go too wrong. And because my neighours are always commenting that our plants looks soooooo healthy and vigourous too. Everyone has been also trying to get hold of horse manure from the neighbourhood after sharing my experience with them. 🙂