[compost_tea] Brassicas and vam fungi

From: clay <clayc_at_westnet.com.au>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:50:14 +0800

A soil consultant came to look at our community garden and said that we
shouldn’t be growing anything from the brassicaceae family as intercrops
because its root exudates kill VAM fungi, and crops that rely on VAM fungi
will suffer. We were growing broadbeans, and wild radish was growing with
them...it was a weed that I hadnt got around to removing yet.

I know that some farmers are using brocolli to reduce nematode problems in
tomatoes, but if they are also killing VAM then maybe they are not so
usefull.

Can anyone comment on this being true or not?

Thanks

Clay.







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