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Bill who putters wrote:
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"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
Doesnąt the inoculation also enrich the soil as well. I'm not sure.
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/veggies/peas1.html
You mean beyond allowing the pulse to fix nitrogen? They are in the
nodules making NH4, which in turn could support a microbial ecosystem,
which in turn supports . . ., and so on and so forth.
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