
Down to Earth
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
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How to Keep Carbon in the Soil
About 80 to 90 per cent of all plants that live and have ever lived, form this iosis. Fungi in the soil are incredibly efficient because they can permeate bits of the soil that plant roots just could never get to. They also have different er chemical tricks up their sleeve, so they can use their chemistry in order to remove nutrients from the soil that plants would never be able to remove. So it's really encourage in by diversity. You want bacteria that will thrive from them, but also using and encouraging other microbes in the soil.
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