Garden/Lawn Dial-A-Spray application of nute tea and sst

short version: how do you apply your teas, particularly the non-microbially active teas, to larger situations for which hand watering is untenable/unworkable?

My local water utility uses chlorine, heavily in the month of march, and then back to chloramines the other 11 mos. That being the case, I'm wondering what the implications/effects of using my dial-a-spray to administer nutrient and enzyme teas. I would basically be taking the hit to the microbe hoard while applying the SST and NT, and then use a non-dial-a-spray application of AACT afterwards to restore the microbe population. In fact, i might even harvest soil from my lawn and garden (several small sites) before applying the SST and NT to develop the BIM to then reapply the same microbial life that was just killed by the chloramine application. Am I overthinking all of this or does this sound like a solid plan for using SST and NT in the garden via the dial a spray?

Furthermore, couldn't i use the dial-a-spray to water my garden so long as i filled it with some liquid humic acid and molasess, thereby neutralizing the chloramine? or does the chloramine need to be in contact with the humic acid longer than the dial-a-spray would provide?

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Dr.J20 said:

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Hey I feel your pain sir. The public water is a terror to organic buffs. One solution is to use a holding tank to harbor the water until sediment settles and air induced chemicals turn inert. I saw this on a PBS gardening show one time. It stated three days is enough. I have found using an aerator helps speed the process. Whey using spray equipment use a filter of some sort to catch debris. If it rains in your location try using a holding tank to catch it and pump from it for irrigation.

Thanks for the reply smokin away; I also found that concrete sprayers and other large nozzled compressed air based sprayers work well for the job. As for watering, I recently just put 1/4c or so of liquid humic acid in my dial-a-spray, set it to the second lowest setting, and shot the water up in the air so it could fall on the raised bed I was watering. Hopefully the extended time provided by watering using a high arc allowed the chloramine to break down. Of course, when the new water report came out showing 2.8 ppm chloramines in our water, so i'm probably just being over-cautious. with enough organic matter the hoard should be able to withstand small doses of chloramines.
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Aquarium shops (online and others) sell products to neutralize chloramine and chlorine. Although chlorine will evaporate if you leave your water out in a 55gal tank with a air pump and an air stone to speed up the process. The back pack sprayers hold about 5gal of material and may be enough for your needs. You only need to spray lightly anyway not saturate the soil with tea