I think microbial solutions are a great thing. I 1st. got my soil Microbes
from Mr. Petrik.Sr over 15 years ago and he 1st. told me of the life in the
soil and how to keep that life alive. I heard that many folks brought fruit
trees with them when they came to Ca. and those that also brought the soil
the trees grew in so they brought also the microbes the trees needed and
those are the tress that made it. also I have been to Natural Farming
conventions and have heard from many growers Using EM how Microbes help
them grow also how the microbes keep down smell in animals keeping. also
one of the wisest folks I ever heard talk on the soil food web Dr. Elaine
Ingham (Oregon State University) http://www.soilfoodweb.com/index.html told
us while trying to repair strawberry fields that have been using poison gas
for years to kill all life in the soil and now may no longer be able to use
it needed to bring their fields back to life. she said that it took tons
and tons of compost to bring the fields back as it seem the longer the
growers have been using the poison gas the longer it will take to make that
soil good again. She also said and this is the important part that using
inoculated compost the amount of compost was cut way down and the fields did
produce as much as before with no poison gas. it was the Inoculated compost
that did it so to me that is Scientific Basis done in the field that show
that microbes added to compost that is added to the fields do help and is
not fo fo dust but a real something. Microbes can be raised organic also I
always thought that if you just take dirt from a healthily tree and throw it
under one not so healthily it may take some of those good microbes and
spread them around. I also feel that it does not help to put out microbes
in a dead soil or soil full of herbicides and pesticides and u need humus to
keep them alive but they do work. . anyway I feel microbes are a great
thing I have seen it with my own eyes I have heard from folks I respect that
they work and its been shown in the field to work in real farming so even
those some folks don't trust it i like them. also if you feed the microbes
you are raising certain food the microbes carry that with them when u
inoculate. and what about beans and legumes that we inoculate and have been
inoculating for years with microbes before we plant. IMHO I like them and
keeping them alive is very important in the way I grow food. feed the soil
not the plant. Feed the soil web of life. add and feed those Microbes
and make your soil and plants microbe friendly and u have what I use to call
natural growing or organic . ofcourse organic now may mean no sun no soil
and no microbes. just a cement slab , lights , rock wool and USDA organic
minerals that's USDA organic . not to be confused with natural farming.
Because the USDA pushes chemicals that kill microbes they feel we don't need
them so they are going to say microbes are bull but I think they the USDA
are the bull. sorry I may not be a good citizen for saying that and because
I have a mind of my own and don't agree with the USDA I have used microbial
solutions and glad I did and will use them again. . I feel the USDA is
going one way and we are going the other . and they just stopped us dead by
taking natural farming over and calling it USDA organic. . we like
microbes and soil life I'm sorry about that. when I water I am watering my
microbes and when I feed I am feeding my microbes. The USDA bum raps the
stuff I feel is good and glorifies the poison stuff . they don't regard
soil life and they don't understand organic . sorry about that it is Just
MHO.
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