In public forums or educational events, I am often asked to describe the various groups of soil microorganisms, and explain how they could be encouraged in the soil. In the landscape industry, however, few superintendents manage their soils with the specific objective of encouraging soil microorganisms.
“With the new generation of microbial products, there is movement away from a preoccupation with the numbers (counts) of organisms in a jug,” says Robert N. Ames, PhD, senior staff scientist for Advanced Microbial Solutions.
