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Our Soil Food Web Journey began Here and we would highly recommend following the link below to get you started.
Credit for these rules of gardening goes to Jeff Loewnfells, Teaming With Microbes
The Organic Growers Guide to Mycorrhizae. Timber press
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Most vegetables,annuals and grasses prefer their nitrogen in nitrate form and do best in bacterial dominant soils.
Most tress, shrubs, and perennials prefer their nitrogen in ammonium form and do best in Fungally dominated soils
Compost can be used to inoculate beneficial Micriobes and life into soils around your garden and introduce, maintain, or alter the soil food web in a particular area
Adding compost and its soil food web to the surface of the soil will inoculate the soil with the same soil food web
Coarse, dryer mulches supports fungal activity
Compost teas are very sensitive to chlorine and preservatives in the brewing water and ingredients
Most vegetables, annuals, grasses, shrubs, softwood trees and perennials from mycorrhizae with Endomycorrhizal fungi
Rototilling and excessive soil disturbance destroy or severely damage the Soil food web
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, hickory) from mycorrhizae with Ectomycorrhizal fungi
Always mix Endomycorrhizal fungi with the seeds of annuals and vegetables at planting time or apply them to roots at transplanting time
Application of synthetic fertilizers kills off most or all of the Soil food web microbes
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