From what I understand, I think it may be helpful for new-build gardens. However if a garden has had several years’ worth of good farmyard manure and homemade garden compost and mulch applied, I’m not sure that the application of micorrhizal fungi powder will be adding very much.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I used it when I planted this Strawberry tree last year and now have fruiting bodies in the pot. Would they be from the mycorrhizal fungi or something else in the compost?
mycorrhiza form underground networks @cynthsirk, those fungi are probably from airborne spores loving damp compost. Have you got your pot up on pot feet or similar to allow it to drain away excess moisture?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
As I mentioned earlier in the thread I have decided not to use it. Soil is full of all sorts of fungi and organisums not sure if it is possible to prove it's use. It is also common to find fungi in compost. What goes on underground is a world in it's self. Merlin Sheldrake's book Entangled Life is worth a read may be in a local library? As@Nollie has mentioned your compost is probably wet, good idea to sort pot drainage soon if necessary.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
As already said the forum is very split on this. I agree if you have good fertile soil, there is no need. The no dig people will tell us that digging destroys fungal networks which take time to re-establish, so if you have a new bed filled with imported topsoil then it will probably help establish the plants more quickly until the local network can get going. I have used it on fruit in a new raised bed on my Allotment and I think it helped the plants cope in this summers heat. I know that is subjective, but other more established soft fruit that hadent had the treatment suffered very badly.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What goes on underground is a world in it's self. Merlin Sheldrake's book Entangled Life is worth a read may be in a local library?
As@Nollie has mentioned your compost is probably wet, good idea to sort pot drainage soon if necessary.