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Gardening

Curmudgeoness

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8. I don't know if this would work for you,

Reply to GreatGazoo (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:18 PM

Apr 2015

but in my area, the Amish farmers always go into town on leaf pickup days in the fall and spring and gather the bagged leaves to plow into their fields for organic matter. It seems like a lot of work to me, but they have been doing this for years. They also plant clover or other legumes as cover crops to add nitrogen to the soil. And have you considered a no-till method?

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Got a soil test...now if I understood the results.... (?) [View all] GreatGazoo Apr 2015 OP

This looks like the recommended rates of application. Nitram Apr 2015 #1

they are old school numbers -- if you divide by 2 you get PPM GreatGazoo Apr 2015 #4

If you really want to get into the math of it Elad Apr 2015 #2

No quick cure for the organic matter level. GreatGazoo Apr 2015 #6

your organic matter is pretty lo > And in fixing this, by adding organic matter, compost, jtuck004 Apr 2015 #7

Wow, did they just give you that with no explanation? Curmudgeoness Apr 2015 #3

I am a guest farmer with my own plot on a larger farm (300 acres) GreatGazoo Apr 2015 #5

I don't know if this would work for you, Curmudgeoness Apr 2015 #8