Understanding the Role of Soil Microbes with Laura Decker

[@samteawater7444]

What I understand from other speakers and videos is that it’s important for soil life to keep the ground covered, preferably with living plants/roots in the ground, or else with some kind of mulch.

[@johnnmartens3067]

I try to do everything to my garden beds and rows in the fall i seed a diverse Cover crop then cover the seeds with a thin layer of aged Johnson su compost then mulch with finely shredded leaves this is my second year doing cover crop mulch and aged compost and it’s amazing how fast the cover crop takes off and completely take over I’ve noticed after one year better water infiltration way less weeds and healthier soil it’s the only way to garden for me

[@sharonwittmayer1221]

LOVE this information!!! Thank you! I’ve been trying to explain this to my husband so he understands why I do the things I do in the garden. He is a retired commercial landscaper and in that world they want instant and easy fixes. This is soooo helpful!

[@EnsignBaiXin]

This is a fantastic review of soil microbes and their complexity. Thank you for putting this together and giving a dynamic presentation with a good narrative and fantastic visuals and information.

[@riogen484]

Glad it was helpful!

[@stanleychavez5790]

Thank you very much. I've been looking for a way to check my microorganisms

[@truckload8767]

great, thank you for quick concise lecture

[@matthewflexen9478]

Thank you so much, my son and I enjoyed your explanations. 😊

[@bitlessmind]

Great introduction. Thank you for your efforts. 🙂

[@yusufalbalooshi2723]

Hello, dear sister. I am from the State of Bahrain. I have increased calcium carbonate and very high salinity after using agricultural gypsum and slaked lime a lot. I have increased salinity and alkalinity, especially since we live in the Middle East, where the soil is alkaline. I ask your Excellency for advice and guidance on treating the high salinity of agricultural soil, as the plants suffer and die. I am a fan of natural fertilization, oregano. Thank you very much.

[@sandeepupadhyay7217]

Excellent vedio lecture. Thanks.

[@HippieFertilizing]

Excellent video!🎉💚💚

[@Mohammaddawwod]

Great lecture!

[@ihapseodi4002]

Egypt guy appreciate your presentation 🙏🏼

[@davidclode3601]

Thanks Laura for an excellent video. Just an observation, but the term SOC or soil organic carbon has become common, and I know I am being pedantic, but it is a tautology, like "reversing backwards". Organic chemistry is carbon chemistry, so saying organic carbon is like saying carbon carbon. I think the terms "soil carbon" or "soil organic matter" are preferable. Please don't take it the wrong way, I really enjoyed the video.

[@bears2604]

Curious to whether soil is needed or best for microbes, or coco hydro are also places they can live or thrive? Or can they grow in coco at all for instance?

[@coolnout3765]

Microbes will adhere to cocoa.

[@sivasubramanian6079]

Can we compress the compost colr pith in wet condition as like 5 kg coir blocks and do transport to other place by sea. (The Sailing time will be 30 days) Please Suggest.

[@jonathanhollinger7524]

Moringa Oleifera makes a excellent biostimulant. It has the highest level of plant based zeatin. You can grow your own trees and make it yourself. You need a Brix level of 12 or higher to keep your plants pest resistant.

[@michaelanderson3096]

I am using around 25% sugar and 75% water spray for my magic mushrooms (Pink Buffalo) spawn grains which is mixed with regular outside soil.

[@coolnout3765]

Use unsulphered molasses as a sugar source. Much better than table sugar.

[@michaelanderson3096]

@@coolnout3765 Is unsulphered molasses a type of sugar? I thought there was only one molecular structure of sugar ??? No luck with outdoor soil and spawn grains. I am now using vermiculite and spawn grains.

[@jeremiahthomaskornder9044]

I am curious about the device you sell.

[@markdenadventuretravelsfar4562]

Is drenching molasses makes pplant healthy and microbes also

[@partidaportet27]

I am not sure if microbes communicate soil conditions to plants, is there evidence to support this. . I think the soil conditions determine the microbe diversity which then dictates the types of plants that might preference any one area over another. Eg lower fungus, higher pH more bacteria,.less lignin based or perennial plants? We know we can change microbiomes through selective inputs. Not changing them persay, but activating or not what is omnipresent through subtle shifts in Redox homeostasis?

[@flatsville9343]

Your interpretation makes more sense...based on studies I read on Research Gate re: redox & pH homeostasis. When "gardening personalities" (in particular) try to parrot back to viewers what they barely understand themselves, it gets terribly garbled to the point of almost sounding metaphysical. Some soil scientists fall into that trap as well, trying to "dumb it down" for those without a solid science background.

[@bishnoirk]

Very useful information. Thanks. In india cow farming is for the same purpose

[@jacobrafaat1516]

Soil organic carbon🤔 replaces humus since that doesn’t exist but the carbon structures we were looking for

[@coolnout3765]

MIcrobes love unsulphered molassyes. Cheap and ready available; mix with water and apply.

[@volvosafe4662]

Dr. Laura Ingahm knows. Phd.

[@joseluizm.garcia998]

She needs to study a little bit more. She is dead wrong in several things she says

[@MrEStreaming]

#SaveSoil

[@600cannasisplant]

how to build a correct microbiome and make infinite microbial life in soil

[@gvv1mhh]

She said UM like 1000 times

[@jeremiahthomaskornder9044]

The microbes become "soil carbon"? Hmmmmmmmm...

[@sudhakarreddy8077]

Microbes specially bacteria having C/N ration of 5 will leave Carbon of 5 parts & Nitrogen of 1 part, even after it is dead. Microbes are valuable , whether live or dead, in that perspective.

[@waynerobinson9525]

Lost me, you start talking about 'brix' useless, brix is about temperature/humidity/time of day, can be hugely diffrenet at 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm. This is not science, brix is a fail, why discuss brix?

[@MiltonWarmikael-o1m]

Not exactly. Brix is very telling in the variations or lack thereof. For instance if brix reading isn't changing between high noon and midnight you probably have a boron issue.