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["Robert C. Mullins" <mullins@gaelicmysts.com>]

Can you amend soil with mycorrhizal?  Or does that only work when 
innoculating seed?

Doreen Howard wrote:
> As an ex-Texas gardener, I feel qualified to comment on clay soils 
> (gumbo) and growing melons or anything edible.  There are plenty of 
> nutrients, especially trace elements, in gumbo.  That said, they are 
> locked into molecular chains that are difficult to bust.  The cations 
> can be freed with liberal applications of compost, shredded leaves, 
> grass (not treated with herbicides) and manures.  Don't use peat or 
> sand.  You are wasting your money on peat, and sand plus gumbo just 
> creates cement.  Some of the sweetest Moon & Stars watermelons I've 
> grown were in well-amended gumbo.  I also used mycorrhizal fungi 
> inoculant to dust seeds when I planted them.  The vines were so robust 
> that they climbed into nearby peach trees, and the melons averaged 24 
> lbs. each.
> Doreen Howard
> Now Zone 4b, where I'm facing a heavy frost tonight.  So much for 
> melons here!
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