MYCORRHIZAE
Here’s the kicker with organic cultivation: While it is leaps and bounds
ahead of fertilizing with nutrient salts,
it has its limitations. When you garden
organically, the animal manure leaves
behind trace elements, which can be
subtly detected in taste if you know
what you are looking for. Organic
gardening results in a nutrient bioavailability of around 50 per cent.
That’s good, but not great. Also, there
is the need to continually supplement
your root systems with mycorrhizae—
the extent of which you are required to
do so is debatable (see previous page).
So, if you want to benefit from a
mycorrhizal association between your
root system and soil, what’s the best
way to go about it? The short answer is
veganic cultivation, which is a method
of growing that simply looks to make
the most of your garden by nurturing a
mycorrhiza-friendly environment. The
biggest goal veganic growers have
is to produce a micro-ecosystem that
will not only allow for healthy growth
of beneficial fungi, but for bacteria
and other microbes as well. The main
source of nutrients in a veganic garden
is a good, old-fashioned compost typically comprised of greens mixed with
animal manures and sometimes even
eggs. In a veganic compost, you’re just
going to skip the animal products and
stick with as much decaying plant
matter that you can get your hands on.
The biggest goal veganic
growers have is to produce
a micro-ecosystem that will
not only allow for healthy
growth of beneficial fungi,
but for bacteria and other
microbes as well."
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Maximum Yield USA | December 2016