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Relation between Weeds and Soil
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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 666274" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>You might want to do some reading on the allelopathic properties of dandelions. Alleopathy is a plant's ability to exude a chemical substance from its roots which will impede or retard the growth of its competitors. Dandelions, I think, exude an acid which will tie up iron thus robbing its competitors of a vital ingredient to photosynthesis. This might be what you are noticing.</p><p></p><p>edit - I don't know much about the spruce forests but I think their are a lot of other species in understory which are also allelopathic in the spruce forest area. Some hurt spruce. Might do a search on this too and might find its a group of plants and not just one causing this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 666274, member: 4362"] You might want to do some reading on the allelopathic properties of dandelions. Alleopathy is a plant's ability to exude a chemical substance from its roots which will impede or retard the growth of its competitors. Dandelions, I think, exude an acid which will tie up iron thus robbing its competitors of a vital ingredient to photosynthesis. This might be what you are noticing. edit - I don't know much about the spruce forests but I think their are a lot of other species in understory which are also allelopathic in the spruce forest area. Some hurt spruce. Might do a search on this too and might find its a group of plants and not just one causing this. [/QUOTE]
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