Comments on: Growing Soybeans In the UK http://sustainablesmallholding.org/growing-soybeans-in-the-uk/ Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding Tue, 26 Apr 2016 08:13:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 By: Deano Martin http://sustainablesmallholding.org/growing-soybeans-in-the-uk/#comment-260975 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 08:12:40 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3871#comment-260975 There are different species of rhizobia that coklonise different groups of plants. The species that colonise soybeans is not naturally present in UK soils.
Hope that helps to explain it.

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By: AK http://sustainablesmallholding.org/growing-soybeans-in-the-uk/#comment-259284 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 06:48:10 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3871#comment-259284 I don’t know about the Rhizobia thing, other legumes grow with it in the UK, I don’t see why it’d be absent here. It may even be found as spores on the beans and if not I wouldn’t be suprised if they can acquire it from soils that have had other legumes planted before or even from the many wild fabacea here such as vetches and clover which often inhabit grasslands before they’re turned over to crops.

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By: Deano Martin http://sustainablesmallholding.org/growing-soybeans-in-the-uk/#comment-2427 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:07:23 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3871#comment-2427 Thanks Andrea
Nice blog by the way. Very professional looking.
DEano

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By: Andrea Mynard http://sustainablesmallholding.org/growing-soybeans-in-the-uk/#comment-2418 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:11:38 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3871#comment-2418 Really interesting, especially as our potatoes suffered too over the last two years. Hope you get a good crop of soybeans, look forward to hearing.

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By: Deano Martin http://sustainablesmallholding.org/growing-soybeans-in-the-uk/#comment-2395 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:20:05 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3871#comment-2395 Hi Alan
I didn’t try a control of uninnoculated plants, but may try it. If there is sufficient available Nitrogen in the soil it won’t be so bad, but I have no idea what other benefits the Rhizobia may give in terms of health. They may deliver the Nitrogen in a better form for the plant, perhaps as a more complicated organic compound.
What variety are you trying?
Deano

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