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Breslau, Ontario, Canada

Last fall I added 160# Gypsum, 50# kelp, a few inches of leaves and sprayed the whole thing with a generous amount of Molasses and Humic/Fulvic acid.

OM: 4.2
Phosphorus
Bicarb: 36
Bray-P1: 65
Potassium: 201
Magnesium: 175
Calcium: 2060
Sodium: 14
pH: 7.5
CEC: 12.3

Percent base Saturations
%K: 4.2
%Mg: 11.8
%Ca: 83.5

%Na:0.5

Sulphur: 287
Zinc: 6.3
Manganese: 66
Iron: 76
Copper: 1.6
Boron: 1.1

% Saturation P : 18
Aluminum: 460

K/Mg Ratio: 0.36
ENR: 54

Any help would be awesome. I know I'm a little late but late is better than never.
John

4/11/2009 8:12:11 PM

Colorado Springs, CO

Your pH isn't that bad ! One sees that you added five key components. Repeat #2, #4 and #5, perhaps, and make a generous investment in a truly good, high-quality, compost material. Don't buy the cheapest "compost" the market offers.

4/11/2009 11:19:44 PM

Breslau, Ontario, Canada

Thanks Tomato Man!

I have 50lbs of kelp, 150lbs of granular Humic, 20lbs of Blood meal and 9 lbs of bonemeal as well as some K-Mag. that I will be adding this week.

I was thinking a few bales of peat moss which may lower my pH ever so slightly.

Should I add these ammendments now and then cover with compost and manure and plow over? or add it on top of the compost/manure?

John

4/14/2009 11:37:39 AM

milford, CT,

John...plow/till it in...get it mixed in good with the compost...I used peat moss a few years back when my PH was 7.2 and it helped bring it down some..It definetly won't hurt..Mark

4/14/2009 2:12:54 PM