For people looking into organic strawberry
nursery plants, consider plug plants.
Especially pay attention to amending the
plug mix with humified compost and mycorrhizal
inoculant.
Here is the web article I posted to Sanet
on strawberry plugs, discussing the benefits
of compost and mycorrhiza. In conventional
agriculture methyl bromide is used extensively.
Yet, through soil foodweb agricultural practices
there is a healthy alternative. This includes
shifting the root environment in favor of
the fungal-dominated Fragaria plant, which
afterall is a woodland plant.... as well as
integration of well humified compost based on
the Luebke method, which includes clay as
a compost windrow addition to form clay-humus
crumb... a practice advocated by Pfeiffer, and
before him, Waksman.
Notes on Elaine Ingham's work are included,
and she has a fascinating story to tell in
regards to California strawberries. My work with
Elaine goes back to 1995, when we did a workshop
together in California, and also visited these
strawberry plots highlighted in the research with
Frank Sances.
Subject: Strawberry's, Methyl Bromide, Compost, Mycorrhizae
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:24:21 -0600
SANET Web Archives
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0105&L=sanet-mg&P=R5889
At the tail end it lists previous postings to
Sanet, as I have tried to keep people tuned into
methyl bromide alternatives, instead relying on
healthy soils and biological approaches.
Best regards,
Steve Diver
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