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Well, my husband went and bacterially dominated the veggie bed by rototilling the whole thing.
Interesting that you seem to make rather similar points about the studies Chalker-Scott used as she did.
However, the wood chips, are you saying that the rule outlined in TWM that says woody mulches promote fungal dominance are off..? Or simply that she's (Chalker-Scott) asserting that by solely using wood chips you will achieve inoculation of such fungal spores? I can't believe she would make that sort of assertion, I mean... really?
I would stay away from the woodchips. The tricoderma in your soil will break it down the wood (cellulose broken down with the enzyme cellulace), and from what I have learned this is not the direction youwant to tricodema going. I am still looking for the specific article that breaks down why its bad (something to do with the enzymes tricoderma expresses to feed cellulace vs chitinace (spelling)), but if you happen to have Maximun Yield May 2010, it talks a little about it.
Also tricoderma can be sensitive to clorine so if your watering an outside garden, a screw on filter that removes the clorine would be a good idea. I would expect the same for cloramine, and its slow release clorine and you may still have problems, and since you cannot see your soil biology... Better safe than sorry?
Off on a tangent, but compost teas are alot like effing with the biology in your hydro res. The bottom line is its impossible from looking at it to know who are the good guys and who are the bad guys (and what is really in there). I mean if you brew a compost tea up, how do you know you are getting th desired bacteria. You don't :(