Re: What's blooming in your garden?

**"* H* <g*@charter.net>**

Mycorrhizal fungi occur naturally in organic fertile soil.  The spores 
attach to plant roots to gather nutrients and water for the plant and create 
various antibiotics that fight plant diseases.  You can buy the dormant 
spores mixed with ground yucca root from various sources, under various 
names.  Gardens Alive! carries it.  Goggle "mycorrhizal fungi inoculant" to 
find other retail sources.

I wrote an article on using the inoculant in the garden in 2005 in The 
American Gardener.  It won a Silver Trowel and detailed my 14 years of 
experimenting with the fungus.  If you are interested in reading the 
article, email me directly at gardendiva@charter.net , and I'll send you a 
PDF file of it.  Or contact David Ellis at The American Gardener for a back 
copy.  His email is dellis@ahs.org.

Yes, Konjac is edible.  The Japanese liquefy the bulb to extract a 
gelatinous material they use as additives to food.  It's supposed to 
regulate the blood sugar levels in diabetics, too.
Doreen Howard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Campbell" <dcamp@chilitech.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
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Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] What's blooming in your garden?

>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doreen Howard" <gardendiva@charter.net>
>
>> I dusted each small bulb with mycorrhizal fungi inoculant when I planted
>> it.
>
> Product name, please?
>
> BTW, you know this miracle weight loss product -- lycoprin? something like
> that -- that is too expensive for casual use just to lose a few pounds? If
> you read the fine print that flashes for a microsecond at the bottom of 
> the
> television screen -- thank you, TIVO -- it is nothing but ground up
> Amorphophallus bulb. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but it should sell
> for the price of dollar store aspirin.
>
> D
>
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