Try using EM•1® on your car

Remember that EM•1^® has all those great antioxidants?  Well, when put in contact with metal and oxidized paint, it can do wonders to buff up a nice shine on your car and help prevent it from rusting!

Here are some ideas:

• The carpets can be washed with an EM•1^®/water/soap solution
• If you're sensitive to chemical smells and bought a new car, or rented one, EM•1^® can be sprayed to get rid of any odors inside.
• EM•1^® can be diluted and used as a window cleaner.  It is safe on tinting.
• EM•1^® will eat oil and transmission stains on concrete.  It takes repeated spraying and some time, but it will do it.
• EM•1^® Bokashi can be used to soak up oil on the ground and on concrete flooring.  Once it is soaked up, you can add it to a compost pile.  In about a month, the oil will be completely broken down.
  
• EM•1^® will eat the grease under the hood and can even be used as a line cleaner.  To speed up the process add two-three ounces of soap per gallon of liquid when spraying.
• Start with testing dilution rates, maybe a 1:10 dilution.  If that works, try a 1:20 and keep backing off until it doesn't work.  If you repeatedly spray(daily or so), it will take less every time.

All these applications for for boats, motorhomes, buses, planes, etc.

Let us know what you've tried and what's worked.

Composting with EM1

I received an email yesterday questioning the instructions on our label for composting.  The question was mostly about converting weight to volume in order to figure out how much EM1 to use.  I'll try to explain this here.  I've included the questions from our customer:

• "1.5 gal per cubic yard" seems to refer to using the product in a gallon of water, at least I think.

The way we came up with this calculation was to back down from a cubic yard (pretty much 1 ton or 2000lbs) of material.  We generally use 1.5 gallons of *Activated EM•1® per ton or cubic yard of waste materials.  Water is also added to reach the desired moisture levels, generally around 60-65%.

1 cubic yard = 27 cubic foot

*The 12oz bottle you bought will make roughly 3 gallons of Activated EM1.

• What does " 1oz/10lbs" refer to?  10 lbs of what? Compost?
  

Yes, it does.  Using 2,000lbs as 1 ton, you can figure out the rough weight of EM1 to use, especially if you just purchased "x" yards of manure and/or soil.
Also, a 5-gallon bucket generally holds about 25lbs of moist material (food wastes, etc.)

I would appreciate it if you could provide clear instructions on using this product in a garden compost bin. I use a 32 gallon plastic compost bin. It is now full. I add to it from time to time as needed to keep it full.

According to this calculator your bin contains 4.277777792 cubic feet.  So, you'll need 40 to 43 ounces of Activated EM•1® to treat your entire bin.

Does this help explain things?  When I used to garden, I was usually doing things on a pretty large scale for a homeowner.  I was working with cubic yards of materials.  For instance, I ordered 20 yards of cow manure and sprayed it all down with AEM•1®.  I would add leaves to it and till it in, spraying as I layered it into the ground.  

It took a few hard lessons of chickweed growing like crazy for me to learn a better method than trying to make piles that I had to turn, etc.  Instead, I dug trenches and back-filled with layered of leaves and manure and saturated each layer with AEM•1®.  When I got to the top of the trench, I flipped the soil from the hole on top and planted in it.  This process eliminated all problems with weeds and turning.

Koi Ponds

Fish ponds tend to get pretty gunked up in the spring and the fall as temperature changes cause an inversion in the pond.  The much on the bottom gets stirred up as temperatures cause convection currents.  The water will get cloudy and oftentimes, if the outside temperature is just right, algae will start to grow.   If the algae gets out of control, it can cause a dissolved oxygen drop and pH shift in the water, causing some fish die off.

EM•1® to the rescue!  There are a couple ways that the EM•1® helps with this.  Firstly, the live microbes in the EM•1® will begin to eat the sludge material, breaking down ligning and cellulose, proteins, etc. that are in the water.  Secondly, EM•1® acts very much like a natural polymer and it affects electroconductivity (EC) in the water, pulling solids out of suspension (TSS). 

Take a look at this slideshow of a pond from Silver Street Studios in Houston:


It took a bit of trial and error to figure out what was going on here, but you can see how clear the water got.  The entire process took a couple months, but it was worth the wait.