Finally! Our soil's finally been analyzed. We've been meaning to do this. All along we thought we had to send our soil to a university lab. That meant for us, gathering the sample, packaging it and mailing it too. No thanks; not interested! Then I asked our feed and soil-supplement guy Ed if he could do it. He's awesome (but that's another story). He did it all!
He gathered soil samples from 25 different locations in our garden. He gathered several pounds and carted it of to a local lab. We didn't have to lift a finger. Funny thing about this... he's been delivering organic feed and fertilizers to our door for more than 2 years now. If only we'd known he did this too!
The results are in!
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| Soil pH 6.8 |
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Before all this, we did a self-test kit from the local farm store. It seemed to be telling us that our pH was off the chart high. This new report by comparison is good news!
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| The vertical lines in the horizontal bars represent the desired level. We're well above the line on the big 3, phosphate, Potash and Magnesium. |
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| We don't know much about trace minerals; but we know they're important. Thankfully ours trace levels are high! |
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| Recommendation: 75 lbs of nitrogen. What? |
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All is well, save one thing... The report recommends 75 lbs of nitrogen on
1000 square foot per acre. Honestly, I don't even know what that means.
Your thoughts and insights into this report are welcome! Please share.
