Lisa,  I think the person who adcocated this had best stick to
raisin' tomatoes.  Up here we call that "manure tea" and it is used
to fertilize tomatoes.  It works very nicely for that purpose.  Ruth


At 3:53 PM -0400 4/6/00, Lisa Sasser wrote:
>I was trained to "induce a biologic patina" by the application of cow manure
>soaked in a barrel of water for about ten days, with the liquid reserved and
>sprayed on the wall surface.  It was not a terribly popular process,
>particularly in respect of assembling the raw materials, but it
>worked great . .
>. and bullshit is definitely cheaper than potatoes.
>
>Lisa
>
>
>>I usually suggest rubbing raw potatoes on masonry in order to induce a
>>biologic patina that turns black within a few months. Can't say how well >it
>works as I'm still waiting on a customer to hire us to rub potatoes on >their
>walls. My GRAND IDEA is to make potatoe juice and use a
>modified >Hudson sprayer
>for application.
>
>>][<en

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