Fact Friday with Luc Nodule bacteria?! You hear about them all the time, but personally, I had no idea that these bacteria are visible, cling to the roots, and aren’t actually inside the roots. I once dug up a sugar pea, roots and all, and took a closer look. Lo and behold, the nodule bacteria. Like little potatoes—or ginger 🫚—they cling to the roots. They act like little fertilizer factories. The bacteria absorb nitrogen from the air. The pea plant uses this nitrogen as food to grow. In return, the pea provides the bacteria with sugar to survive. That’s why. Harvest your legumes close to the ground and leave the nodules in. Most people probably already know this, but until now I didn’t know what these bacteria looked like 😇