Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success

I grow rare cactus and succulents and after experimenting with Mycorrhizal inoculants I’m completely blown away with results I’ve seen. Even with soil that dries out completely between water (for extended periods of time) they still work their magic wonderfully and I see wonderful growth and survival with the roots showing the fungi growth as shown and described in this article.

If you haven’t read Entangled Life: How Fungi Shape Our World, I can’t recommend it enough.

https://www.merlinsheldrake.com/entangled-life

I have added spores to my garden for a few years, & the results have been excellent. Not only have the plants thrived, the network spread through the lawn to a further extent every year, & the grass in that zone looks much healthier than the rest of the lawn. Mostly I sprinkle a bit in with each seed or row — it does the work from that point on.

Trees have shown the same pattern — we had a large, older tree go down, one which had quite a bit of fungus growing around it, & the trees planted near the old site did well while new trees on the other side of the yard did not, even with significant, regular watering.

I like how Ohio state university created a shiitake mushroom memristor. Fungi are fascinating

Sounds like communism to me.