Cultivating Rhizobium?

ganjababy

So I am growing some peas and when looking up info about them I stumbled onto the site on the link. The rhizobium grows on the roots of the pea plant. My question is after the season is over with the peas can I innoculate the soil with the rhizobium from the roots of the peas? Would this work the same way as mychorrhiza, It would be nice to find a cheap alternative to buying it, or do you guys know of any plants whose roots grow nodules with mychorrhiza like peas? I know rhizobium is a bacteria and mychorrizha is a fungus...
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Kieahtoka

I don't even know what Rhizobium is, so I'm going to stay tuned. Am I correct in thinking it's a beneficial bacteria?

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ice#1

those fix nitrogen to the soil thats farmers generly grow corn then beens the fallowing year then corn again cuase the corn gives back what the peas need to grow and the peas or beans fix nitrogen back into the soil with the help of those lil Rhizobium

digix

It really makes sense when you think about it. I've heard about crop rotation to keep the soil 'healthy', but was unaware of little things like this.

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ganjababy

Rhizobium converts unusuable nitrogen from the atmosphere and makes it usable. I wasn't sure if it would just enrich the soil or form form nodules on the plants like that of peas. Yes Kieahtoka it a beneficial bacteria.

Pappy

Soy beans do this, too. Here in the cornfield, most crops rotate corn one year, soybeans the next. For a real nitrogen boost, alfalfa will be in a field for several years. Then the soil is very nitrogen rich.

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green_nobody

it is a bacterium family that forms a symbioses with to roots of a plant and feeds it nitrogen - they can be very helpful if they do their job.

little on them from wiki Rhizobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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