Too Much Manure, Salt in Soils, and A Plant Threesome
In this episode C.L. and Ellen discuss research into growing plants in salty soils, aerating lawns with spiky shoes, and a plant that’s a three some. We end explaining why it’s possible to have too much manure in your soil.
:47 Did You Know: From the world of Plant Science: salty soils
3:50 True or False: You can aerate your lawn by walking on it with golf shoes.
7:57 Eat/Drink/Grow: Lichen: The plant that’s a threesome?
14:44 Love Letters and Questions: Tim writes, “Is it possible to have too much manure in your garden soil?”
Link to the article about salty soils and bacteria: https://news.byu.edu/intellect/byu-scientists-discover-way-to-make-crops-grow-in-salt-damaged-soil
Be they the crazy strap-on spiky shoes or golf shoes, these are not the way to aerate a lawn.
It’s been known that lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, but now it’s thought that a yeast is also part of the mix.