Good day everyone. Kevin from Epic Garden here. We are talking about

microrizzle fungi still. This is our third in our series. So we've discussed what

it is and some of the benefits of these relationships that my chrysal fungi form with the roots of plants.

The question now is you're convinced of it. It's time to figure out how to cultivate this relationship.

I really like to start with how not to cultivate this relationship.

So healthy soils, no matter where they are,

are naturally rich with mycorrhizal species.

So if you start out with healthy soil, just inherent in the fact that that soil is healthy,

there will be mycorisate within it. But when you

change the chemistry of your soil by adding some sort of pollutant or

contaminant, heavy metals, fungicides, certainly, lots of fertilizer.

That's actually one of the most damaging things that you can do to the microizal health of

your soil is blasting your soil with fertilizer, especially fertilizer with

phosphate. That would even include things like composted manure that would even

include things like a soless potting mix.

Where there's so much nutrition that you're dumping in,

plants don't need to send out those signals

from their roots,

thus the mycorrhizate don't respond to the signal, thus there

are less of them creating a symbiotic partnership with the plant roots.

So really, any activity that destroys the structure of your

soil like if you were to rototill 24-7 that will also destroy the webs of

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