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- From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
- To: "michael@herbsandapples.com, North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides
- Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:27:41 -0800
Title: Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides This is REALLY preaching to the choir with Michael, but for the rest (and pardon the plug) there are a good number of very useful products for organic fruit growing in general included in The Grape Grower. The same principles apply to all fruits.
As to mycorrhizal fungi themselves, you can't just innoculate and walk away. The fungi (indeed, ALL the soil life) needs lots of organic matter and the soil itself needs to be disturbed as little as possible. It's an ongoing, dynamic process, just as it is in the wild, and you have to adapt your methods to it, if you want to follow that way.
-Lon RomboughGrapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com
Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003
All the pluses that flow from biological symbiosis are incredibly well-summed up in the article that Lon posted. Thanks, guy! I¹ve long been advocating that people find healthy wild trees and take a few spadefuls of inoculated soil to their fruit orchards and/or compost piles if woody in nature.
But all this begs one big question: How much do we undo of these mycorrhizal benefits when we use fungicides in the orchard and vineyard? I don¹t know that it matters here if we¹re talking captan or sulfur, though maybe there are some gentle fungicides someone wants to point out. Is there a balance point between the two where a minimal fungicide program does not break the mycorrhizal chain?
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[NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
Michael Phillips, 03/05/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, Lon J. Rombough, 03/05/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
Doreen Howard, 03/05/2004
- RE: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, Michael Phillips, 03/05/2004
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- RE: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, Scott Williamson, 03/05/2004
- RE: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, del stubbs, 03/05/2004
- RE: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, tanis cuff, 03/05/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
Jwlehman, 03/06/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
Tom Olenio, 03/06/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides (leeks),
Dylan Ford, 03/06/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides (leeks), Tom Olenio, 03/06/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides, loneroc, 03/06/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides (leeks),
Dylan Ford, 03/06/2004
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Re: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal fungi and fungicides,
Tom Olenio, 03/06/2004
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