Hey Rowan thanks for your response. Unfortunately we didn’t notice the boric acid do anything detrimental to the ALG or any species really. Just a bit of leaf burn, mainly noticeable on the clovers. Only positive for the clover! We are very Sandy so don’t hold nutrients well – and we have had a lot of rain! No complaints about that though!!

With regards to your red grass is it a native (like Warrego? that Col Seis has and pasture crops into) or an introduced? We have Veldt grass also in some paddocks which tends to be allelopathic, however appear to have some success lately in clovers starting to be there. We can see the drill lines where we used liquid inject of carbon, minerals and microbes so we feel we may be finally having a little bit of influence in introducing some microbes and food and plants to change the biological community.

After listening to Christine Jones again last month on a series of interactive zooms we will continue to add the different family groups to see if we can get the quorum sensing turned on. I’ll attach her list of the different family groups and plants – best to have at least 6 families was the suggestion. My highlighting is what we have used in previous plantings.

With regards to the boric acid we will do more trials and monitor what happens. Not giving up yet! The photo showing browned off in paddock is from the Basta sprayed out 5 days prior to us doing the Boric acid. Nothing like that with the boron – only some curl – which I didn’t take a photo of ????????‍♀️

The disc drill is cutting through the centre of the ALG and allowing plants to grow through it – so we feel that is a win. At least there is some diversity. Christine says she thinks there will be be a fair amount of symbiotic exchanges with the ALG and the other species. Particularly have noted clovers, peas and cereals growing straight through the ALG. See photos attached. We are trying to learn to love our ALG and understand why it’s there and how our management of our livestock and our landscapes impacts on all that we do and what grows where.

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