The Rhizosphere 🌲🍄🌴 Secrets to Better Plant Growth and Soil Building

Plants manipulate the rhizosphere to make it easier for them to grow. Once you understand this process your gardening skills will skyrocket.

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The Rhizosphere 🌲🍄🌴 Secrets to Better Plant Growth and Soil Building
plant roots, microbes, exudates, mycorrhizal fungi, root hairs and much more.

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[carolynsteele]

I feel so smart after watching this! In all my studying I’ve learned that plants have different preferences for soil ph, so I thought it was up to me to correct the ph for the needs of each plant...phew!!! So glad to know plants can figure it out.

[angielarson]

You have an amazing gift for making this stuff understandable for us non-scientist. Well done!

[katipohl]

University of Munic published new research showing that arbuscular mycorrhiza get lipids and carbohydtates from their plants. University of Leipzig published last year that tomatoes can only associate with their mycorrhiza in soil - not in hydroponics or peat moss.

[RichardFreemanjr]

Thank you so much Robert. You are now my main source of gardening info. So much nonsense in the gardening industry. You are a plant angel

[cattoes]

I am so glad your videos popped up in my feed. Great information

[ank]

I just love the way you teach thanks for sharing ...

[foggypatchfarm]

It's great to see a video on the rhizosphere! That was very clear and understandable too.

[musaadfelton]

Woooow this is amazing and the most simple explanation of this. Thank you for sharing. So educational.

[orlandolannes]

Teaming with microbes (Jeff Lowenfels) is the best book I read about food web. You did a good job resuming the main concepts in such short video. You have a fan here.

[billybass]

I garden in the Florida panhandle, zone 9 a/b. We are infested with root knot nematodes. I was about to give up gardening when I discovered a cover crop of mustard greens tilled in kills them. Travis over at Lazy Dog Farm told us about this biofumigation. I tried it and it worked very well. About half way through the growing season though, the RKNs came back and ruined my garden. I am changing from traditional row cropping to raised beds using the methods you teach. I've also been following a couple in Korea who use your methods with great success, and I want to also. I'll have eight beds that are 30" x 20'. Basically, I'll have eight separate gardens that I can ammend, rotate and interplant independently. Question -- Do you have any advice about dealing with RKNs without tilling?

[dannyboy]

Is elemental sulphur a fungicide? If so, then, will using it to lower soil ph have a net negative effect by killing much of the mychorizae?

[suzyfarms]

Fungi and microbes are very vital in gardening

[hootinany]

Should a person cut dried corn stocks, or pull them from the ground in a no till garden?

[VTO]

I appreciate your comprehensive coverage of gardening fundamentals. I have root knot nematodes in my raised garden beds and I bought your book so that I might find a remedy to this scourge. To my disappointment there is little info on how to rescue my 5 beds. Please offer a solution as your book simply says they exist and will decimate my garden and no remedy. PLEASE HELP! Thank you...

[judymckerrow]

Ha Ha cute microbes💚🙃 Smart plants💚🙃 Thank you for the explanation 💚🙃

[emanovwevoke]

what's the consequences of using plastic mulching? is it good for the health of the soil? thanks.

[chanimarie]

Its amazing you don't have millions of Subscribers. You're a treasure vault of horticultural info on YT and a Master Gardener. So many self-raught "Experts " on here teaching incorrect practic; it is reassuring to see that there is, afterall, some solid, useful data to be had on YT.

[kevinkelleher]

Is there any good compost tea you would recommend to stimulate root development I grassland . My pasture roots are shallow and ground seems compacted.
I'm losing faith in regular chemical fertilizer

[markfk]

How does this apply to plants grown in soilless media in containers?

[dwightyoder]

Seems more like the microbial life is actually farming the plants rather than the other way around.