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| Manure will help, if you can get that much, but that is mostly just a nutrient source for the microbes that break down it down into a form the plants can use. You are stimulating the microbes that are already in the soil. (manure does usually have some other bacteria and microbes in it). Do the microbes you want to encourage to grow, exist where the manure is? Are they still in your soil?
If you have a heavily compacted soil, then you probably are missing some microorganisms or they aren't in high enough numbers to balance out the soil because half the ones you want are the aerobic ones, and compaction reduces the gas exchange. So ideal conditions don't exist for their growth.
We don't know it all. in a healthy living soil there are 100 million to 1 billion bacteria per -teaspoon-
this is about microbes
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-36
This is about soil fungus.
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-37 | |
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Cover crop after wheat what and when
