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Re: Mustard meal seed treatment
Hi Dale,
I don't really care how small the area affected is, if you have to kill a bunch of organisms in order to get a plant to grow, the soil isn't healthy.
Don't confuse healthy soil with "we can get the plants to grow if we add in bunches of chemicals and lots of fertilizer."
If we put you in intensive care in the hospital, we can keep you alive. But it is not healthy. We can grow plants with extensive inputs of chemicals too, but it's not healthy.
Brassica and the cyanate or glycosinylate compounds are not that common. They occupy a certain stage in any successional process. The crops among these groups of plants do not occupy that much cropland in the US, or anywhere in the world that I am aware.
But where you can use them, why not? But please be aware that decomposition of brassica elevates the actinobacteria, and the work by Rose back in 1984 or so, and our own observations in field soils strongly indicate that actinobacteria are not beneficial for plants that need mycorrhizal colonization. Lack of mycorrhizal colonization can be a big problem, if your plant needs mycorrhizal colonization.
Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com