Re: beneficial microbes
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: beneficial microbes
- From: H* E* P*
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:45:49 -0700
- References:
pumpkins@mallorn.com wrote:
>
> I'm full of questions today. I must be avoiding my studies.
>
> Can anyone recommend products containing beneficial microbes? I expect
> they come in powdered form if they are going to keep for any length of time.
>
> Thanks,
>
Please ignore my reply if you do not like it.
I am speaking as one who has made some study of this seeking to sell
such products if any useful product is possible. I concluded, farmers
should save their money. I have done a fair amount of culturing of soil
organisms. It is a rare soil that does not already have all the
organisms you need, except some strains of Bradyrhizobium for producing
nodules on certain legumes so they fix more nitrogen. Even then the
strains already in the soil tend to out compete the ones you coat the
seed with.
One of the big puzzles is that the bacteria which are famous for
growing in hot springs at near the boiling point and die unless kept
hot, are found in soil! One of these lives in nearly every hotwater
heater that has been tested. Of couse beacteria growing in drinking
water is good because that is how water gets purified. (It is just the
human pathogens that we don't want in our drinking water from a health
viewpoint.)
--
Harold Eddleman Ph.D. Microbiologist. i*@disknet.com
Location: Palmyra IN USA; 36 kilometers west of Louisville, Kentucky
http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab
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