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Cedar Lake, IN.

A picture of my fall soil test is on growers diaries under
"kurty". Any recommendations would be greatly received. Tremor, do you have any? Thanks to all for all the help I was given this year.

11/1/2009 10:12:42 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

sorry i can't view the diaries from my mobile phone browser. come on people help the man out already.

11/4/2009 1:17:52 PM

Cedar Lake, IN.

That's O.K. I believe I'm going to add 80 pounds of gypsum per 1000 sq. ft. organic matter has been added.
Thanks for the reply...

11/4/2009 1:59:21 PM

Farmville, Virginia (mfowler@hsc.edu)

I'm no expert but seems overall you are looking good. Add your compost/manure to get your OM up and I would add at least twice the amount of gypsum you mentioned to get your calcium up. Other than that you are basically in the ball park.

11/4/2009 6:46:22 PM

Cedar Lake, IN.

Mark thanks, 150-200 lbs. per 1000 sq. ft. it is.

11/4/2009 7:19:46 PM

Cedar Lake, IN.

I have just realize I've made two mistakes.
(1) I post this on the wrong forum.
(2) I should not give advice on soil test.
After learning a little bit about soil saturation percentages I found out how much I don't know.
I thought my Mg needed to raise about 30% on the contrary
I need to decresse it by about 30% and I know my calcium needs to raise about 15 to 20%. Now I know one of the reasons why the AG slowed way down mid season.
Just plan got lucky the soil should be in a good growing condition come spring.

11/11/2009 8:03:11 PM