What was your biggest gardening / landscape mistake?

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Oh no..fungi even have developed the capacity to extend hyphae snares into the different ph environment favorable to bacteria and snare them out for dinner. But do not mistake what I said as some sort of live dinner statement. Like you said they feed on organic matter. And dead bacteria blooms are exactly that dead organic matter rich food. I agree that 2 oz per gallon is a good number..and less when it gets warm. I bet I was using a cup per gallon but that was quite a few years ago at this point.

I should point out that the organic matter produced by dying biological components in the soil can be amazing. This idea is the source of the amazonian earth that physically grows in size every year to the point that locals selling the topsoil find it has replaced itself every 10 years or so. A little sugar is a very good thing. And it weighs so much less than other soil amendments.
Please forgive me for my lack of understanding of what you are saying. Are you saying that molasses is a pathway for fungi to become a mutant able to go into places never gone to before? To grow into such numbers that they become detrimental? That they have become "specialized" to the point of living off of dead bacteria? That molasses causes this bacterial growth to the point where fungi can support themselves by living off of this dead population?
 
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Please forgive me for my lack of understanding of what you are saying. Are you saying that molasses is a pathway for fungi to become a mutant able to go into places never gone to before? To grow into such numbers that they become detrimental? That they have become "specialized" to the point of living off of dead bacteria? That molasses causes this bacterial growth to the point where fungi can support themselves by living off of this dead population?

Thats too much. There is of course no one fungi. And my garden is not mutagenic. And they already exist as specialist in what they eat. And yes given a food source they can exist even indefinitely like the aeroponics globes people seal plants into. I just overfed, and was killing the garden with too much love.

You must realize the new gardener also did not realize how low his garden was, or what the water level in his poorly percolating clay would do, or what fun would grow out of high protein fertilizers covered in sugar. There had to be other combined factors of course. And in this case, I am very close to a hardwood litter covered hill, which will flow its leachate into the garden area during heavy rain periods. All of this and a few spores of something like scytinostroma galactinum and it is over. Now we plant in hill row, have dry soil surfaces or hay etc but not back then. I still use molasses today. I have a 25 gallon sprayer that I will mix 1/2 gallon into, it takes 2 trips do do my whole yard.

Which reminds me, have you used the deer molasses sold by tractor supply? Its by Evolved Habitats. It has a slight amount of propionic acid in it, which breaks down into other acids or perhaps you know of a nuetralizer? My lawn soil is usually an 8ph or so because we live in limestone central so acids should not be that big a deal but I am not that familiar.
 
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Thats too much. There is of course no one fungi. And my garden is not mutagenic. And they already exist as specialist in what they eat. And yes given a food source they can exist even indefinitely like the aeroponics globes people seal plants into. I just overfed, and was killing the garden with too much love.

You must realize the new gardener also did not realize how low his garden was, or what the water level in his poorly percolating clay would do, or what fun would grow out of high protein fertilizers covered in sugar. There had to be other combined factors of course. And in this case, I am very close to a hardwood litter covered hill, which will flow its leachate into the garden area during heavy rain periods. All of this and a few spores of something like scytinostroma galactinum and it is over. Now we plant in hill row, have dry soil surfaces or hay etc but not back then. I still use molasses today. I have a 25 gallon sprayer that I will mix 1/2 gallon into, it takes 2 trips do do my whole yard.

Which reminds me, have you used the deer molasses sold by tractor supply? Its by Evolved Habitats. It has a slight amount of propionic acid in it, which breaks down into other acids or perhaps you know of a nuetralizer? My lawn soil is usually an 8ph or so because we live in limestone central so acids should not be that big a deal but I am not that familiar.
I didn't know what propionic acid was so I looked it up. It doesn't seem to be harmful in any way. I too have alkaline soils. I too have my garden at the bottom of a hardwood covered hill. My soil isn't clay, it's more of a loam. I either get my molasses as horticultural or as cattle feed supplement. Both are unsulfured. I take care of fungus with whole ground cornmeal.
 
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I want the cast away animal feed molasses that has had every sugar boiled out because it is that version that has the highest levels of remaining nutrients. By the end of the process of removing white sugars and so it becomes animal feed nutrient which frankly I do not find disposable. But the sellers want to inhibit mold which I can understand their position. You can see from my street view how the garden is in the hollow of both the lawn and the hill behind it.
 
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There are 2 types of molasses. Grain Sorghum and Sugar Cane. Cattle feed molasses is usually sorghum. Both have large amounts of sugars/carbohydrates which I believe soil micro-organisms use to a great extent. I may be wrong but it seems to me that the more sugar in molasses the better.
 
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Balance. Who would think the word to be challenging? At this point I have to observe thread hijacking rules and suggest we speak more in areas where readers are not impeded by our minutia. Fair?
 
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Balance. Who would think the word to be challenging? At this point I have to observe thread hijacking rules and suggest we speak more in areas where readers are not impeded by our minutia. Fair?
OK by me but I also think many readers are very interested in what we are discussing. Perhaps a new thread something like MOLASSES THE GOOD AND THE BAD.
 
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View attachment 31961 I want the cast away animal feed molasses that has had every sugar boiled out because it is that version that has the highest levels of remaining nutrients. By the end of the process of removing white sugars and so it becomes animal feed nutrient which frankly I do not find disposable. But the sellers want to inhibit mold which I can understand their position. You can see from my street view how the garden is in the hollow of both the lawn and the hill behind it.
Looks a LOT like mine
 

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