Re: miccorhizae

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I have a soft cover book from England which relates a lot of research about mycorrizae beginning, I think, around WW1.  I'll get the volume from my shelves at home and give you the title and I might be able to scan it so you can read the whole thing, bibliography included.  It uses a few polysyllabic words, but in general is comprehensible.  It tells the reader that there is so much to find out that one cannot as yet summarize the topic in one paragraph.  The subject is one that will illuminate plant growth patterns, but probably for a fair time the light will not show enough at once to reveal overarching patterns.  Just like fertilizer.  My neighbor who wished to be very natural tried to raise tomatoes in soil that did not grow weeds to speak of.  Without adding Ca, Mg, N, P, K, and all the other elements that are on the Ag Research Service's list of necessary she got a few pathetic fruits of wan coloration on scantily leaved greenish yellow short plants. 

 

In short, mycorrizae can be a lifetime's study, or a subject that is more ignored than acknowledged for the average gardener

 

If anyone wants me to try to scan the book, tomorrow or Thursday, please contact me off list.

 

 

Barbara Emeneau

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