Luke that was an interesting and informative piece of information. At 70 yrs old im always willing to learn how to improve my gardens and the soil. You’re never told to learn new things. Now like so many questions you will definitely be getting about this info should we as gardeners/farmers be utilizing these little rhizomes back into our soil to help keep the nitrogen in the soil throughout the winter. It would be a new wrinkle in he old brain for me 😉 please let us know! As always thanks for being such a happy, good humored, informative young man!!!! 👍
Interestingly there is (i think) A species of corn that can do it, however the nitrogen-fixing bacteria live aboveground and directly feed the corn plant. And the corn plant receives about 80% of its nitrogen from those bacteria.
I think i read that that species is native to somewhere in south america, but i don't think it's been attempted to be grown outside of there
And that's why early farmers practiced crop rotations because many cash crops robbed the land of vital nutrients while others replaced vital nutrients. So, educated farmers alternate what they plant and where they plant it.
I pull up one or two to examine the roots to check for those balls and see how many. then I snip off the rest at ground level to leave the roots in the soil for the next crop.
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should we leave them in overwinter?
So shouldn’t we be companion planting a garlic and/or legume plant in every pot, raised bed or plot to keep the soil thriving.
Luke that was an interesting and informative piece of information. At 70 yrs old im always willing to learn how to improve my gardens and the soil. You’re never told to learn new things. Now like so many questions you will definitely be getting about this info should we as gardeners/farmers be utilizing these little rhizomes back into our soil to help keep the nitrogen in the soil throughout the winter. It would be a new wrinkle in he old brain for me 😉 please let us know! As always thanks for being such a happy, good humored, informative young man!!!! 👍
Interestingly there is (i think) A species of corn that can do it, however the nitrogen-fixing bacteria live aboveground and directly feed the corn plant. And the corn plant receives about 80% of its nitrogen from those bacteria.
I think i read that that species is native to somewhere in south america, but i don't think it's been attempted to be grown outside of there
And that's why early farmers practiced crop rotations because many cash crops robbed the land of vital nutrients while others replaced vital nutrients. So, educated farmers alternate what they plant and where they plant it.
'rhizosphere' actually just means the root area, cause 'rhizo' comes from the greek word for roots.
Rhizobium is 'rhizo' (root) and 'bios' (life), so root life, cause the bacteria live in the roots of those plants
Where you bean all this time? In the garden!
Thank you 😊
I pull up one or two to examine the roots to check for those balls and see how many. then I snip off the rest at ground level to leave the roots in the soil for the next crop.
Love that your talking about this stuff finally!
Totally off topic, but what are those little red balls in your garden?
Hence why you should cut the plants of not pull them up leaving the roots and Nitrogen in the soil.
God is good. If we just follow His way, all benefit with abundance.
Other types of plants have these bacteria for example Elaeagnus
Can you just put the bean plants / roots in compost bin?
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Cool! ❤️