-Lon RomboughGrapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com
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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