[Terrapreta] sugar usage

[adkarve]

Sugar is not harmful to plants. Plants growing under tissue culture are fed
with sugar. But tissue culture is conducted under sterile conditions. Under
natural, field conditions, sugar would be immediately consumed by soil
micro-organisms, and it would not be available to plants. Sugar may prove to
be harmful, if the quantity applied is so high, that it would raise the
osmotic pressure of the soil and make it difficult for plants to absorb
water from the soil. In India, farmers apply to their crops only 10 kg sugar
per ha, along with 10 kg cow dung and 10 litres cow urine, once every three
months. That does not seem to harm the crop plants. In fact many of these
farmers get higher yield than their neighbours who apply chemical
fertilizers.
Yours
A.D.Karve

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael N Trevor <mtrevor at ntamar.net>
To: <terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:22 AM
Subject: [Terrapreta] sugar usage


> The soils chemistry debates here may be getting a bit esoteric, can anyone
> provide some simple
> advise?
> Does anyone know if sugar is actually harmful?
> If it is truly is beneficial what kind of amounts are we looking at in
pound
> per arce
> or kilos per hectares, or for home gardening and flowerpots maybe
teaspoons
> per gallons.
> I am more than willing to try a cup or two on the green onions and basil
or
> what ever.
> If it will not help my plants I am more than sure the neighborhood ants
will
> like it.
>
>
>
>
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