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GreatGazoo

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5. I am a guest farmer with my own plot on a larger farm (300 acres)
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 03:51 PM
Apr 2015

They submitted their sample (last year) with no target crop listed -- so we didn't get 'high - med - low' scoring.

It is now an organic farm so they may have forgone the NPK recommendations since those are usually for conventional fertilizers but relative scoring would be nice.

I am submitting my own soil sample today to a different lab -- U Mass. I will be curious to see how different the results are but I am trying to cue up some soil amendments while waiting for the latest test results. I have only about 2 weeks before I seed my main crop. We tilled a week ago and will till again before rows are formed and that is a great time to add any amendments.

As mentioned up thread the organic matter is low for veg so I may try top dressing with compost for now and then try to get them to cover crop at the end of this season.

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