Fertiliser factories
Channel: Let Nature Feed Your Senses
Date: 2011-02-23

If we look at the roots in the soil, we've seen some of the animals that you can see but there are millions and millions that you can't see.  On this root of clover that I've just dug up here, if we look at the roots more closely, they are very, very fine and delicate but here we can suddenly start to notice there are lots and lots of tiny white bumps on the roots.  Each one of those swellings on the root, although it is really tiny, is a fertiliser factory. Check out http://www.letnaturefeedyoursenses.org/letnature/listen.eb for more nature, food and farming stories.