How Does Your Garden Grow?

[Timmah!]

A couple things I've incorporated into my gardening routine over the years:  

Fascinating article on the cooperation of mycorrhizal fungi, bacteria, plants, & insects. The importance & complexity of these networks is quite astounding:  Plants have genes that are responsible for creating welcoming environments in their roots for mycorrhizal fungi - a home.  The fungi network extends throughout the forest, field floor, in the soil.  It not only brings nutrients to the plants, it enables plants connected to the system to warn each other of nearby attacks, allowing them to prepare a defense for the attack to come, whether from insect, bacteria, or virus...even mechanical attack by a mower, etc.  It's been documented that the plants under attack release chemical signals that are then transported along the fungi's mycorrhizal network/mycelium, warning all plants connected to the network, allowing them to build their defenses before the attack arrives.  What is more: Predators of plant pests, such as aphid Parasitoid Wasps pick-up on these fungi-transported plant warning signals & follow the scent trail to the scene of the crime to garner a tasty meal of aphids. Beneficial bacteria also participate in this symbiotic relationship, further benefitting those participating in the community.  These networks stretch throughout areas that may well cover entire continents.  Truly fascinating & useful for gardeners, both indoors & out.  If you're planting a garden, you can purchase these beneficial mycorrhizae on Amazon or elsewhere & apply them to your plant's &/or garden's roots, soil to initiate & benefit from this nutrient & defense network.  You can inoculate the soil around your plant, or apply it to the root ball when potting-up your plant...or both, if you want to be extra sure.  It's only needed once in a growing season, & remains in your soil afterwards.  Food, protection & communication of early warning systems.  Increased health & yields.  W00t!

This is the one I use, regardless of other treatments or programs: https://www.amazon.com/Xtreme-Gardening-RT4402-Mykos-2-2-Pound/dp/B003STB5N6/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2MD88IQA19RFB&keywords=mykos&qid=1650254519&sprefix=mykos%2Caps%2C226&sr=8-2

Citation: I came across this article some 9+ years ago, & it is still as relevant now as it was then.  There's much more out there to incorporate into your gardening!:

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fschaechter.asmblog.org%2Fschaechter%2F2013%2F08%2Fmycorrhizal-fungi-the-worlds-biggest-drinking-straws-and-largest-unseen-communication-system.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2vCrSllh0ZvOlq11XwjbmYL0AA4tqy8lA_djqdjjYaxsGOAnvnU_doHkQ&h=AT0_CopBHk-1GjchY1adqP9GJlfB2vFLU1m-bjTKRVyExwhJu3HZOCHx-KlFF5U14Nbxz7jm6qtOqgB3O4jyxZz8qiWM0Md-uPZIhMjpqn6mWoTMfn0Vb4vJicYR4xIWEG147eO4nOtpkEusxw&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT0adGV8Wa5Gj6HTLdD0TgW-aWSXGVK4DeQ6-owLWNEU_y-nkBwhtr-vTfDPua8rkvUyhel5y2hrZBq3MBI12cxpWoNLS0CzgW1RYD9wX0ph1M7modvJqIBGvub622HV_FnrFZzDGWt1RgXISFgpSbv8Oy4

Edited April 18, 2022 by Timmah!

[RobMc]

Ah? any of you remember the old Timmah ??, the wild boy, sex n drugs n rock and roll ? now it's gardening, soon the joints will be swapped for a pipe, slippers and gown bought for evenings listening to classical music in his rocking chair. We all get old buddy just accept it, your bunny hops will stop, your rifle waver and before you know it Budman will be kicking your ass. I never got to the Budman stage but we can swap stories about worms, compost and our favourite pesticides freely in these forums. How about a gardening section to go with shooting and fishing, you can post pictures of your cucumber, but not in mens toilets please.

[Majbasil]

Ok to add to this interesting post, I would like to implore folks to NOT USE ROUND-UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   If you love your life, your family, your pets, DO NOT USE ROUND-UP!!!!!     https://www.mygenefood.com/blog/why-glyphosate-is-dangerous-and-how-to-avoid-eating-it/  

Excerpt from a Washington Post article about Round-up  

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The new controversy about human health may give home gardeners pause. But the question for me is: Does the gardener actually need chemical herbicides? With the exception of the occasional application of crabgrass preventer, I generally don’t use them, preferring to pull or hoe weeds in garden beds and live with them in the lawn. Simply, I don’t want to rely on poisons — this extends to insecticides and fungicides — as a component of my gardening.

 

Edited April 18, 2022 by Majbasil
more to add....

[TBB]

YO -  @Timmah! - interesting but it took me so long to read I'm hungry - send me a meal - thanks