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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.

I'd love to get back to your yeast but . . .

Not. g

I advised a good female friend about it. She was having problems with
over the counter crap that no longer works. I was advised by one of our
ER docs (now head of our ER) that OTC remedies were deregulated just
because they seldom work anymore. The yeast had become immune to many of
them. It makes money for the drug companies.

The ones that still do work are still prescription only, and have side
effects. Plus, some women mis-diagnose themselves. Wet preps and a
microscope are the only way to diagnose it. There are advantages to
working in the lab in health care. g

I'd landed in to a bunch of fresh garlic heads at the asian market, 6
heads for $.99. I gave her 12 heads and told her to pig out on it. She
liked garlic so did so. She liked garlic.

It worked. ;-)


My confusion here is that forests, undisturbed soil, have a lot
of mycelium growth, and they are acidic.

I understand. Some pine trees only live well with symbiotic fungus.
Amanita muscaria only grows in conjunction with certain trees too.

Remember, there is a distinction between disease causing fungus vs.
friendly fungus?


Gardens tend to be at higher pH. ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_pH
Altering Soil pH

Cool link thanks!

All I know is that the advice from gardenville saved my English Ivy.
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Peace! Om

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)