the 19 rules!
- Some plants prefer soils dominated by fungi; others prefer soils dominated by bacteria.
- Most vegetables, annuals, and grasses prefer their nitrogen in nitrate form and do best in bacterially dominated soils.
- Most trees, shrubs, and perennials prefer their nitrogen in ammonium form and do best in fungal dominated soils.
- Compost can be used to inoculate beneficial microbes and life into soils around your yard and introduce, maintain, or alter the soil food web in a particular area.
- Adding compost/ compost teas and its soil food web to the surface of soil will inoculate the soil with the same soil food web.
- Aged, brown organic materials support fungi; fresh, green organic materials support bacteria.
- Mulch laid on the surface tends to support fungi; mulch worked into the soil tends to support bacteria.
- If you wet and grind mulch thoroughly, it speeds up bacterial colonization.
- Coarse, dryer mulches support fungal activity.
- Sugars help bacteria multiply and grow; kelp, humic and fulvic acids, and phosphate rock dusts help fungi grow.
- By choosing the compost you begin with and what nutrients you add to it, you make teas that are heavily fungal, bacterially dominated, or balanced.
- Compost teas are very sensitive to chlorine and preservatives in the brewing water and ingredients.
- Applications of synthetic fertilizers kill off most or all of the soil food web microbes.
- Stay away from additives that have high NPK numbers.
- Follow any chemical spraying or soil drenching with an application of compost tea.
- Most conifers and hardwood trees (birch, oak, beech, and hickory) form mycorrhizae with ectomycorrhizal fungi.
- Most vegetables, annuals, grasses, shrubs, softwood trees, and perennials form mycorrhizae with endomycorrhizal fungi.
- Rototilling and excessive soil disturbance destroy or severely damage the soil food web.
- Always mix endomycorrhizal fungi with the seeds of annuals and vegetables at planting time or apply them to roots at transplanting time
- unknown author
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