Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

All flora and fauna have symbiotes. It's a fact of biology. We couldn't live 
without the bacteria in our gut. I was just curious if there was some reason 
for the question.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not 
television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only 
those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it.
   - Aldo Leopold in  Round River, 1933
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On 4/6/2006 at 10:07 PM Marty Kraft wrote:

>No problem with broccoli, just want to understand the relationships of
>those plants that don't form associations with micorizzal fungi. Do
>they have another symbiotic thing going to aid in their development?
>
>Marty
>On Apr 6, 2006, at 6:28 PM, TradingPostPaul wrote:
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>> Some conifers, cane plants, exotics and others need certain micorrhiza
>> in their soil to germinate or survive, but humans have been growing
>> vegetables without adding specific microorganisms since the dawn of
>> time.
>>
>> Do you have a soil problem with broccoli?  Not the easiest thing to
>> grow.