Yeast soil amendment

[lampshade]

There was study done that showed that three particular yeast strains made an excellent soil amendment for growing sugar beets. http://www.academicjournals.org/journal ... 38AEA32757

I'm thinking that our yeast strains would also be a good amendment; so I started throwing my left-over yeast into my garden.

[SoMo]

Sounds like probiotics for the garden. It's certainly worth a try, I'd think it would be most useful during the growing season, but even in other times of the year it's still adding nutrients and composting into the soil.

[RandyMarshCT]

Interesting. I wonder how far off the K. walti strain is from some of the strains we use?

I looked it up and found this: http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/collections/Biol ... actMatch=T" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

... but when I try to read that page and make any determinations from it.... I feel like Forest Gump... "I am not a smart man."

[Galeoturpis]

Cool website. I looked up S Cerevisiae and learnt that there are "diastaticus" variants which metabolise starch! That could mean no mashing. http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/Collections/Biol ... Fields=All" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
Lots of new words that are relevant to mycetologists. Can some yeasts really survive to 40°C? I generally throw my yeast out on the lawn (as I use activated carbon) but there's only 25-30g of nitrogen plus a couple of vitamin pills worth of vitamins in the trub. Still, better than down the sink!

[Paulinka]

Or you can drop a few cube of bakers' yeast to a bad neighbours' cesspit, or just flush the cubes down in his toilet. Watch the shitflood from afar.