{"id":162,"date":"2017-06-24T23:21:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T03:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2024-03-17T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T20:07:52","slug":"hail-rhizobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Hail Rhizobia!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hail Rhizobia (pronounced &#8220;rye ZO bee uh) !!\u00a0 No, this is not a chant honoring some strange country.\u00a0 Rather it&#8217;s an exclamation of happiness.<\/p>\n<p>I was doing some much needed weeding in the corn today and pulled a few &#8220;volunteer&#8221; scarlet runner bean plants.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure these volunteers were the result of growing a boatload of beans on the south garden fence last year.\u00a0 Although I&#8217;m growing more beans this year, the new ones will be trained to live with a row of sunflowers on the north side.\u00a0 Gotta rotate your crops you know.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, when I pulled the volunteer bean plants I was happy to see many little nodules growing on the roots.\u00a0 These beautiful little nodules house the rhizobia bacteria that will actually produce nitrogen while they grow.\u00a0 All legumes, including of beans and peas, will form a symbiotic relationship with these bacteria if the soil conditions are favorable.<\/p>\n<p>Organic growing methods promote good soil health, and the &#8220;proof in the pudding&#8221; is finding your bean plants with root nodules.\u00a0 When the soil is happy, the rhizobia are happy.\u00a0 And when the rhizobia are happy, they benefit not just the beans (or peas and other legumes) but the plants nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a photo I took today of these beautiful nodules; and I drew a few arrows to point them out to you.\u00a0 Click on the picture for a better look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rhizomes-scarlet-runner-beans-with-arrows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-163\" src=\"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rhizomes-scarlet-runner-beans-with-arrows-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rhizomes-scarlet-runner-beans-with-arrows-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rhizomes-scarlet-runner-beans-with-arrows-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rhizomes-scarlet-runner-beans-with-arrows-624x832.jpg 624w, http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rhizomes-scarlet-runner-beans-with-arrows.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hail Rhizobia (pronounced &#8220;rye ZO bee uh) !!\u00a0 No, this is not a chant honoring some strange country.\u00a0 Rather it&#8217;s an exclamation of happiness. I was doing some much needed weeding in the corn today and pulled a few &#8220;volunteer&#8221; scarlet runner bean plants.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure these volunteers were the result of growing a boatload [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beans","category-soil-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kennysgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}