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Is Milky Spore to control grubs okay to use on my remediated garden soil?  Don't want to harm the existing bacteria.
I see that it is okay for lawns but what about vegetable gardens and fruit trees?
 
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It will not harm your soil biota to use Milky Spore, it will simply be another beneficial living in your soil.
Paenibacillus popilliae (formerly Bacillus popilliae) is a soil-dwelling, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium.
It only causes disease in beetle grubs. It won't even harm the cicada larve living in your soil, should you have some of those.

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Thank you.  I always have had a problem with grubs and lose many plants eventually.
 
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