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Billy wrote:

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Omelet wrote:

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"www.locoworks.com" wrote:

I hae been told that it helps to remove harmful organisms from the
soil. I am dubious. Have you had real-word experience with it?

Yes, I have...

I was having a die-off of English Ivy on my fence line. I took some of
the dying plant to the local nursery (Gardenville). They said it looked
like root rot which is fungal. Made sense, we'd had an unusual amount of
rain at the time.

They sold me sulphur and told me to water it well into the soil where
the plants were.

Wait two weeks then add a soil probiotic that they also sold me.

It worked.

I'd personally not use it unless you have a reason to do so. A specific
infection. Add probiotic soil bacteria instead.

The sulfur may have been to lower the pH, which frees up nutrients,
or may improve the environment for the probiotic, or weaken the
target organism.

If you have any more random statements, I'd be happy to generalize
on them ;O)

grins Sulphur kills fungus by lowering the Ph.
Garlic is high in sulphur too which is why it's _very_ effective in
killing yeast...

I'd not heard of using it tho' to change the soil Ph. Makes sense.
Wonder if it'd be good for pine trees? Our soil here is very Alkaline
which is why many of them don't do well.
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