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Ontario, Canada.

PH 7.4
OM 18.9
P ppm 29 sodium bicarb test
K ppm 256
Mg ppm 267
Ca ppm 6498
Zn ppm 2.5
Zn index 21.4
Mn ppm 11.7
Mn index 15.1
Cu ppm 0.6
Fe ppm 121.0
B ppm 0.58
CEC 37
Saturation K% = 1.8, Mg% = 6, Ca% = 89, H% = 3.
K/Mg ratio 1.0
%CEC from OM 98.0
Target OM% 9
aggregate stability. good

10/9/2003 12:06:20 PM

Ontario, Canada.

Ca:Mg ratio. I think is troublesome at 15 to 1.

10/9/2003 12:57:53 PM

Montoursville, PA

It would be helpful to know what if anything you have added to the patch since the sample here was taken. What are the plans to add manures, compost or leaves? Are these two tests before and after or two separate locations?
...In any event this will help anyone who comments. In either case I would not worry about any changes. Your work has yielded what I call a good in range balance that should stay good with the simple addition of manures, composts and elements of compost like fall leaves and a cover crop.

I would add ten pounds of Ironite, Green Sand, or Lonfosco a soft natural colloidal phosphate this fall and again next spring. As you locate these or equals mix them up in rotation as each have slightly different trace minerals and biological support for your patch. I would seek and find an all organiclike Symo-Erth-Rite product of 7-2-1 about twenty five pounds over 1000 sq. feet as a starter with two or three pounds of blood meal worked into the nursery area.
As the plants begin to run and vine I would side dress lightly with a similar Symo-Erth-Rite product or equal rated about 2-3-2. Using fish and kelp or seweed as a foliar you would have a very good system. Your heavy organic leanings will carry certain forgiveness to specific tweaking. I should think doing this or equal would give you a most pleasing result. In any event a hundred bucks will cover the fertilization next spring and summer and you should have some change for a cold one.

10/9/2003 1:08:36 PM

Ontario, Canada.

Sample 1 is the summer as grown condition.

Soil test 2 is the 16 yards of new soil (triple mix) I brought in and tested before adding to the patches.

Added since tests.
3 yards horse manure to each patch.
Added Corn meal 15lbs to each patch.
10lbs organic fert. 4-4-8 to each patch.
Triple mix 5+ yards to each patch.

Not yet added
1 yard compost and 1 yard leaves shortly to each patch.
also to go in are 10lbs dried molasses to each patch.
Bone Meal 6lbs/patch.
Dried Kelp 4.5lbs/ patch.
Calcuim sulfate? unkown how much.
Potassium sulphate? muriate? possible 35lbs sulphate/patch
Magnesium ? possible 5lbs./patch.

10/9/2003 1:48:16 PM

Montoursville, PA

I'm not going to change my opinion..It reads well to me in both patches. You are a tad low in one and a tad high in the other but both within a good PH range.

You have put together a personal better patch growing medium at considrable expense. I am so sure you will not be displeased, in any way. I personally do not know about your last two items. I would not worry about them. If Steve comes in and encourages your use and application I would listen. He is really savy in this area. I just feel you have put so much goodness together that you may have to put your seed in screw top jars to prevent them from going to the garden now on their own invisable air feet. :)

These two patches should grow a nice one for anyone.

10/9/2003 8:38:59 PM

Ontario, Canada.

Thanks Dwaine > I'm roflol. Screw top jar and invisible air feet. Dwaine do you have a new Hybred seed.
Your right it has been costly.
Cory came over earlier this week and said man you have good soil. I did not believe him until now.

10/10/2003 6:07:50 AM

Montoursville, PA

You could dig out half of each patch and switch their locations. Following with modest blending you would be perfect in both patches. Wanna borrow my little red wagon? Hee Hee.

10/10/2003 10:09:31 AM