HedgeNursery

We strongly recommend our PowerRoots - Trade Mycorrhizal Fungi, especially when planting in dry or difficult soil. The cost is a small percentage of any hedging project cost, but the results can be noticeably different. Mycorrhizal fungi is a once-only treatment that increases the volume of soil explored by the hedging plants by up to 700 times. The fungi acts like a permanent fertiliser and ensures rapid hedge establishment. Mycorrhizal Fungi provides better growth to hedges; it maintains vigour, flowering and long term survival via the balanced nutrition system provided by the fungi.

When a hedge is planted with Mycorrhizal it takes only 2-4 weeks under normal conditions for the fungi to start benefiting plants. In that time they attach themselves to the plant`s root system and grow out rapidly into the soil, searching for nutrients and water. They essentially become part of the plant`s own root system.

The benefits to hedging plants include;
1. Better nutrient uptake. These fungi are so much thinner and finer than the plant`s own roots and therefore can find nutrients in the soil far more efficiently that the plant`s own course roots. They are especially good at finding nutrients responsible for flowering and fruiting such as Phosphorous and Potassium. As they can explore a much greater amount of soil than the plant`s own roots they are also far more likely to find trace elements and the rare nutrients that all plants need to grow well.

2. Drought tolerance Mycorrhizal fungi are an essential part of a plants ability to combat drought. Leaves and stems have developed mechanisms to combat drought such as silver leaves, waxy leaves and hairy leaves but these adaptations on their own aren’t enough if the plant doesn’t have its friendly fungal partner on its roots. Mycorrhizal fungi hold onto water in soils like a sponge.

3. Establishment in difficult soils Mycorrhizal fungi will enable plants to establish and thrive even in difficult soils. In poor sandy soils the mycorrhizal fungi will be able to find scarce nutrients and hold onto water. In clay soils these fungi will be able to unlock nutrients from the soil acting like a clay breaker.

4. Reduction in transplant shock. Bare root plants can show reduced growth rates in the first year following transplanting -an effect called `transplant shock`. Sprinkling our moisture retention powder over the roots significantly reduces transplant shock because, when wet, a gel forms to create an environment immediately surrounding the root surfaces which is ideal for the development of new rootlets and water-absorbing root hairs.

Contains: Propagules of Endo Mycorrhizae and spores of Ecto Mycorrhizae fungi, organic fertiliser NPK 2.2.1 plus beneficial soil microbes and trace elements.