Mushroom Life Cycle and Mushroom Cultivation Cycle – Gardening Rhythms
Mushroom life cycles and cultivation is important to understand for taking advantage of mushrooms for monetary, health and natural soil biology reasons. Mushrooms is used for health benefits: For Information on health benefits from mushrooms, click here Mushrooms is used to make or save money: For growing and fruiting mushrooms, click here Mushrooms are germinated in compost teas and [...]
Soil Food Web – Predator-Prey Protists Bacteria Fungi Microarthropods in an Aerobic Environment
Soil Food web – Predator-Prey Protists Bacteria Fungi Microarthropods are some of the main components in soil microbiology. Below is a predator/Prey food/eating chart. Arrows indicate who is eating what. Some of the food materials are organic (meaning they contain some carbon), while other organisms are eating inorganic materials (like NO3, NO and etc…) The tangled [...]
Compost and compost tea is not fertilizer, but an infrastructure for soil
Compost and compost tea is not fertilizer, but infrastructure for your soil. This is really good place to start with learning how the Ecology and Phenology in soil works. We start with what we know and branch out. Definition of fertilizer: Fertilizer is made of a salt consisting of Ammonium (NH4) & Nitrate (NO3). [...]
Extracting Reishi Mushrooms into Ice Cubes for Later Consumption
Extracting Reishi Mushrooms into Ice Cubes for Later Consumption is easy to do. It’s best to buy the mushrooms from a local herbal store and pressure cook the mushrooms for 45 minutes at 15 psi. If you are wondering where to buy these mushrooms, here is a picture of the paper that came with the [...]
Inoculating store bought Chanterelle, Porcini and Morel Mushrooms with Oak, Elm and Ash
Inoculating store bought Chanterelle, Porcini and Morel Mushrooms are all difficult mycorrhizae mushrooms. They need a host tree or plant to evenly exchange nutrients for the mushroom to survive. If you want to grow these types of mushrooms, you need to inoculate your trees with the mushrooms. To this date there is no sure way to [...]
Fruiting Edible Mushrooms Indoors
Fruiting Edible Mushrooms Indoors for large yields can be difficult. The biggest problem is keeping the newly emerging mushroom moist and away from carbon dioxide. If you ever bought a mushroom brick or loaf from a mail order or super market, your yield can be small if the brink is not kept in the correct [...]
Green Tea from Comfrey Or Other Leaves – IPM Control – Foiloir Layer Biology
Green Tea from Comfrey Or Other Leaves is an IPM Control for the Foiloir Layer Biology. Compost tea can be made out of leaves as well. It is not called compost tea, but green tea. It is used as a pest management for leaves. This method suppresses leave pathogenic problems. Fungi and bacteria issues. Link: For [...]
Growing Your Own Oyster Mushrooms at Home – Video
Growing Oyster Mushrooms at home is easy and fun to do. This video shows how to use mushrooms from the grocery store for propagation and grow them yourself in your kitchen. The methods described in the video use the following materials. Brown paper lunch bags Hydrogen Peroxide (3% solution It needs to be diluted to 0.3%) [...]
Aquatic Nitrogen Fixers for Aquaponics – Almost Fishless Auqaponics?
Aquatic Nitrogen Fixers for Fishless Aquaponics Systems. Nitrogen fixing is the way or a process where plants can take up nitrogen from the air and make it absorbable by roots. Plants cannot take nitrogen directly from the air. It first needs to be fixed. The chemical compound is NO3. Or called Nitrate. Nitrate is produced by [...]
Lingzhi Mushroom – Reishi Mushroom – Ling Zhi
Reishi mushroom removes toxins in your body. This causes your immune system to be boosted, or should it be said that the immune system does not have to fight off as much anymore. Reishi mushroom consumed as a tea or as power dislodges toxins in your body and is removed by the blood stream. After 10 [...]
Huiltacoche – Cuitlacoche – Corn Smut – Ustilago maydis
Huiltacoche, Cuitlacoche, Ustilago maydis and Corn Smut are all the same thing. Well, it gets worse, there are the other synonyms for Corn Smut….and then it’s food time! Caeoma zeae Lycoperdon zeae Uredo maydis Uredo segetum zeae-maydis Uredo zeae Uredo zeae-maydis Ustilago carbo-maydis Ustilago mays-zeae Ustilago segetum mays-zeae Ustilago zeae Ustilago zeae-maydis All of these are [...]
Litter Layer Maintained – Case Study
Here is a case study using fava beans and wheat as a cover crop. In the fall plant red winter wheat and fava beans in the same area. This case study makes a litter layer for a veggie garden. The same method can be used for native gardens. Just change the cover crop. When harvesting or [...]
The Nitrogen Cycles – Videos
In this episode we looking at two Nitrogen Cycles. This is a replacement for chemical pesticides and fungicides. Applications are done as compost teas. And applications are done with Azos bacteria. Nitrogen Cycle part1 from Paul Holowko on Vimeo. For More Information on Nitrogen Cycles, click here. Nitrogen Fixing Cycle Part 2 from Paul [...]
Azotobacteraceae Nitrogen Cycle (Nitrogen Fixing Plants)
Azotobacteraceae’s purpose is to take food from the plant through the roots, eat it, change it to a protein. Once the protean is released, nitrifying bacteria covert it to a Nitrate. Nitrate is fixed nitrogen. It is the same thing as chemical fertilizer but made by the soil ecosystem. You can buy Azotobacter from any [...]
Microbiology For Leaves -Video
How disease suppression on leaves works is no secret. On the leave surface, each leave cell has many ports where fungi and bacteria can connect to. This is a normal process for plants. Good and bad fungi can connect. Good and bad bacteria can connect. Each micro organism takes up a connecting ”portal” on the leave [...]
Testing Confocal Microscope on Compost Tea
Here is an interesting test case of compost tea made this week. The tea was brewed with protists and fungi in mind. The tea was made in a 5 gallon bucket with 4 tablespoons of liquid kelp and 4 tablespoons of fish hydrogisate. It was bubbled for 48 hours at 68 degrees F. Below is [...]
Foiloir Layer Case Study – Laurel Bay Leaf Images
The sample is set up with two different stains. One stain shows all of the live bacteria (green) and the dead bacteria (red). Below is the BL (Back Lite) of the Bay leaf. The stomata are shown in semi-bright circles in this image. A stoma is a pore, found in the leaf and stem epidermis [...]
Creating Soil with Mulches and Composts
This is a semi-cost method to create soil from really neglected soil or soil that had been buried for years and is used a planting bed. Advantages: totally organic (remember chemicals and fertilizers cost money), This gets things up and running in a short time. It is great for the first time gardener. Disadvantages: Costs [...]
Creating Soil No cost
This is a no cost method to create soil from really neglected soil or soil that had been buried for years and is used a plant beds. Advantages: Free, no money, totally organic (remember chemicals and fertilizers cost money), This makes the best tasking veggies and has the longest lasting impact on soil. Disadvantages: Takes [...]
Soil Building
If you are just starting out in gardening and soil care, or have been doing it for years, you can use this recipes to change what kind of plants you want to grow on the existing neglected soil. These methods will change watering requirements and can improve taste of vegetables in new vegetable gardens. See the following posts [...]
Nitrogen Cycle With Rhizobium Bacteria (Legumes)
Rhizobium Bacteria is part of the nitrogen fixing cycle for Legumes. It has a symbiotic relationship with plants where starches are eaten by the bacteria and the bacteria give back proteins to the host plant. The protein is stored in nodules connected to the roots. For Information on bacterial and mycorrhiza inoculants, click here. [...]
Calculations for Amount of Released Fixed Nitrogen From Soil Biology
Calculations for Amount of Released Fixed For Information on bacterial and mycorrhiza inoculants, click here. For More Information on Nitrogen Cycles, click here.
Nitrogen Cycle from Nematodes (Fungal Feeding) Cycle
Fixed Nitrogen from Nematodes. This nitrogen cycle is mainly appart of late succession plants and forests. For Information on bacterial and mycorrhiza inoculants, click here. For More Information on Nitrogen Cycles, click here.
Nitrogen Cycle from Nematodes (Bacteria Feeding) Cycle
This is one of the more tricky and interesting Nitrogen Fixing Cycles. The Ammonium comes from the nitrogen eaten of bacteria by nematodes. By default, bacteria bodies have a C:N ratio of 5:1. Bacteria have a very narrow split between Nitrogen and Carbon. Nematodes have a C:N ratio of 100:1. The split between the Nitrogen [...]