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Gardening's Most Valuable Advice
By Nicky Pilkington, Tue Jan 10th

Many people may not be aware that gardening can actually harmthe environment. A large amount of carbon dioxide can bereleased through tilling the soil. This contributes to globalwarming. When you cultivating and compacting the soil, destroysgood fungi. Fertilizers like nitrogen and manure often leach outof the soil and pollute the water you drink.

Global warming

Did you know that the earth's soil gives out carbon dioxide inthe atmosphere 10 times more than all human activity? This comesfrom the pill bugs, microbes, fungi and worms when they breathe,digest food and then die. Although in the past plants have beencapable of absorbing carbon dioxide caused by small-scaletillages, this isn't the case nowadays.

In untilled soil, there is beneficial fungi known as thevesicular-arbuscular-mycorrhizae or VAM for short. VAM actuallyforms a symbiotic relationship with plants. Their filamentsincrease root hairs and provide nutrients to the plant. Theygive out zinc, copper, potassium and phosphorus. Plants providecarbohydrates for the fungi in return. It is possible to

 

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