No, it is not even related to manure. Here are a couple of URL's to go look at and find all the information you care to read about... "for the rest of your life" if you think you can read it all... ICOM II: http://www-icom2.slu.se/ Mycorrhiza Information Exchange: http://mycorrhiza.ag.utk.edu/ INVAM at the University of West Virginia: http://invam.caf.wvu.edu/ Dr. David Sylvia research database at U of Florida: http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~dmsa/refman.htm (there are 65 research abstracts on file in this database on tomato) And here is a picture of Joanie Flynn in front of her pear tomato plant: http://www.tandjenterprises.com/images/tomato_9-27-98_01.JPG Thomas Giannou Spokane, Washington -----Original Message----- From: ChuckWyatt/Md/Z7 <ChuckWyatt@compuserve.com> To: INTERNET:Tomato@GlobalGarden.com <Tomato@GlobalGarden.com> Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [tomato] Tomato Digest V1 #154 >Hi Linda, > >I didn't mean to be rude. My comments were only made after I got eleven >(11) private E mails from people asking why I didn't give my feelings on >what they felt was a hoax. Isn't the stuff only refined manure? > >Chuck Wyatt >