What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Thank you for tuning in on

algae week here on the podcast. So today we're getting practical in the

garden. We're talking with Matt about the types of algae that are found in our soil.

So we know it exists, we know it plays a role in the soil in some capacity.

What's actually in there and more importantly, where is it located within the soil because we know that

you know bacteria fungi bugs etc they all have certain regions of the soil that they like to

exist within,

where does algae fall in the soil system?

So we're gonna talk about that,

and there's a little segment as well

on Di-Tumaceous Earth, which I think you'll also find interesting.

So without further ado, let's go ahead and get into the show.

So this is a surprise to me. I had read a book recently called Teaming with Microbes where it was talking

about the soil food web and how you know myrizo fungi and

and all sorts of bacteria are present within the soil and pair with the roots and the

rhizosphere which is that small zone around the roots I was surprised when you emailed me to learn that

algae is typically also present in soil, probably just because my mental

association is algae equals something in the ocean, right, or something in water.

So maybe we could run over the types of algae that are found in soil.

Yeah, absolutely.

That's great that you've been reading about that stuff. Yeah, it turns out about 20% of the microbial biomass in healthy soil

is going to be algae.

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