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[Michaelangelica]

The only thing that worries me about all this is that we don't know realy very much about what is in the soil in the first place

For example, where I live there is a lot of urban (suburban) development-on the outskirts of Sydney). Many developers are required to collect seeds of native plants before development and re-plant with these after everything is broken up into "little boxes"

I see little evidence of this actually happening.

But what about native 'soil beasties'. They may have taken 100,000 years to develop in that soil.
How do we know what's there?

Then inoculating with 'store-bought' super bugs is not going to help their survival.