Pea & Bean Booster

 


Have got a couple of packets to try. Its organic, a live culture of
harmless
bacteria. You coat the seeds with this powder prior to
planting. What it claims
to do, is fix the nitrogen in the plant to
produce better and bigger pods. Has
anyone used this before and with
what results?

Up in the far north, we need all the help we can get!




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geowicz wrote:

It sounds like it is rhizobia which is the nitrogen fixing bacteria that
grows on the root nodules of legumes.  If that is the case it is fairly
common practice to inoculate legumes in this way and it does improve the
nitrogen fixing capacity of the plant and hence its growth.

David

 



 Doesn¹t  the inoculation also enrich the soil as well.   I'm not sure.

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Bill who putters wrote:

No, it is applied in only small amounts and provides the bacteria for the
root nodules not a direct nutrient, if you haven't grown lugumes in that
spot it might be absent from the soil.  The growing symbiotic bacteria then
does the nitrogen fixing which enriches the soil.

David

 



You mean beyond allowing the pulse to fix nitrogen? They are in the
nodules making NH4, which in turn could support a microbial ecosystem,
which in turn supports . . ., and so on and so forth.
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