Bill who putters wrote:
In article ,
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

geowicz wrote:
Have got a couple of packets to try. Its organic, a live culture of
harmless bacteria. You coat the seeds with this powder prior to
planting. What it claims to do, is fix the nitrogen in the plant to
produce better and bigger pods. Has anyone used this before and with
what results?

Up in the far north, we need all the help we can get!

It sounds like it is rhizobia which is the nitrogen fixing bacteria
that grows on the root nodules of legumes. If that is the case it
is fairly common practice to inoculate legumes in this way and it
does improve the nitrogen fixing capacity of the plant and hence its
growth.

David

Doesn¹t the inoculation also enrich the soil as well. I'm not sure.


No, it is applied in only small amounts and provides the bacteria for the
root nodules not a direct nutrient, if you haven't grown lugumes in that
spot it might be absent from the soil. The growing symbiotic bacteria then
does the nitrogen fixing which enriches the soil.

David