Dear Mary, There is an internet site in Europe and there are people listed on that site who are in France. I know there is a French source for Mycorrhiza inoculants. You should be able to contact him... I'll put the url's below and the guy's email address here so everyone else can check it out. The European site has a lot of good information on it and might also be a good place to get personal contacts with pro's in the field. I did that with a fellow in England who had taken some pictures of Strawberry plants that came out of a Nursery in Finland with ripening berries on them. He put me in touch with the Mycologist behind that experiment and that fellow sent me all the reports he had written on his research papers and books he had contributed to writing about using mycorrhiza with Strawberries. I have found some people who have experimented with mycorrhiza in Canada with Raspberries and Strawberries, but their experiments failed due to fertilizer problems and soil problems. These guys are achedemic types and they wouldn't accept the fact that I was getting results and replicating them. It's like, nope... I tried that and it didn't work, therefore it will never work anywhere. When they started talking about soil PH in their experiments, I knew they simply did not know some things yet... still don't for that matter. Quite frequently, it is just a simple thing that is wrong that stops the whole experiment. With Mycorrhiza, soil PH matters less than it does without mycorrhiza. For example, with a PH of 8.5 and mycorrhiza you can grow Astors while uninoculated plants will simply not grow in that PH. Anyway... sorry about the little divergence away from what you were asking for... Here's what you will need to chase down Mycorrhiza in France: This is a URL to a Mycorrhiza Clearning house. It will take you to all kinds of sites on this subject at a variety of locations on the planet. You can also find vendors listed if you are seeking to find who sells the stuff. http://mycorrhiza.ag.utk.edu/ This is a URL to the European Site I was talking about: http://wwwbio.ukc.ac.uk/beg// This is the E-mail to the Lady in France who can help you find the product. She is the head of culture collection for the European BEG group. Gianinazzi-Pearson, V. Lab. de Phytoparasitologie INRA/CNRS, Station de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes, INRA, BV 1540, 21034 Dijon Cedex, France. Tel: 33 3 80633155 Fax: 33 3 80633263 Vivienne.Gianinazzi-Pearson@epoisses.inra.fr Ms. Gianinazzi-Pearson will be able to give you all the information you need in order to find out where you can get Mycorrhiza there in France. Good luck there. It would be great to get another gardener working on Raspberries. Let me know how it all turns out. Best Regards, Thomas Giannou -----Original Message----- From: MAllen4543@aol.com <MAllen4543@aol.com> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com <gardeners@globalgarden.com> Date: Monday, October 19, 1998 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [gardeners] Re: Mycorrhiza questions... >In a message dated 18/10/98 19:27:55, you write: > ><< I originally got Mycorrhiza inoculant from a close friend of mine. I > mentioned to him I had to dig up all my raspberry plants and move them into > rows that were farther apart. >> > Good evening Thomas, I have never heard of this product, do you think I would >be able to buy it in Europe? Where would one go to obtain it, ie. nursery >garden or chemist? I have a lot of raspberries that fruit well but would like >to try this on them. > >Mary in France. >