[CH] Shrrooms
KB (khemcp@yahoo.com)
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 06:14:21 -0700 (PDT)
Anybody using shrooms to
fertilize their chiles?
Mushrooms make effective fertilizer
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Mike Amaranthus opened the
glass door of a refrigerator case and peeled back the
top of a plastic container to reveal a musty brown
powder. "Two tablespoons of this powder contains more
spores than there are people on earth," he said. "You
can imagine what you can do with 50 pounds."
Amaranthus and a handful of other entrepreneurs are
selling the spores of mushrooms, puffballs and
truffles as an organic and highly successful
alternative to chemical fertilizers and
pesticides. To make his point,
Amaranthus offers test plants - roses, maple trees and
marigolds - grown with and without the fungi. Those
inoculated with spores are bigger,leafier, and have
more blooms
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