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Without fertile soil our gardens won't grow much of anything. But what is it? First of all what is soil, fertile or not? Simply put, soil is the dead remains of anything and everything that has ever lived since time began and that stuff is called Organic Matter. But how in the world you ask can a giant tree or a dinosaur or a field mouse become soil? Mother Nature once again comes to the rescue and give us tools to alleviate all of those pesky odors of dead dinosaurs and piles of dead brush littering the landscape and these tools are called fungi and bacteria, together called micro-organisms They live in the soil and together they turn all of that Organic Matter into something called micronutrients that provide food for the plants that will provide us supper tonight and one of the stars on the fungi team is named Mycorrhizae Fungi or MF for short. When MF is happy and healthy our tomato plants are happy and we are happy. This is Fertile Soil. But what happens if MF and his team start to become unhappy? He and his team are getting hungry and when MF gets hungry he gets pesky. So in order to keep MF happy we feed him more of his favorite food, Organic Matter