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Deer Park, WI

Man...hard to believe this dirt produced 1000+ check this garbage out...

pH 6.1
OM 3.3%
P 51ppm
K 90ppm
Ca 26.5ppm
Mg 1016ppm
B 277ppm

Any suggestions folks? Im pretty clueless when it comes to manipulating these numbers.

5/20/2004 10:08:10 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

Joze..you had to make changes in the patch since last year!!! what did you add??? either that or the pumpkin sucked your calcium dry!! lol...try another sample something ain't right..chuck

5/20/2004 5:03:48 PM

Ann Arbor, Mi

Boron at 277 ppm...patch should be dead!!!!

5/20/2004 5:19:01 PM

Brillion Wisconsin

I'm by no means am a expert on interpreting soil test numbers. What I do know is if this was my soil test I would be tilling in a good supply of Hi-Cal Aglime asap.

Check out www.glcalcium.com/aglime.html

5/20/2004 6:43:05 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

I am beginning to believe more and more...what the agricultural guy told me...A soil test is like tasting soup through an eye dropper. I truey believe if you sent the same 5 samples all the results would be different.

5/20/2004 11:16:31 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

The law of minimums dictates what the plants absorbs from the soil. Potassium as a for instance, need never exceed 500 lbs per acre or 250 PPM. Anything more the plant cannot use. Yet I see soil tests all the time that greatly exceed this quantity. WHY? Horse manure & excessive use of other potassium containing amendments. These amendments do add good organic matter & improve the physical condition of soils though. Plus they offer a "cusion" to avoid an in season draft down of potassium by the plant.

Just as important as where the soil that thousand pounder came from is now, is where it was *BEFORE* the plant spent 150 days feasting. The differnece is what was used & what should be replaced before trying again.

I have found that AGs suck Calcium & Potassium up like no other crop I've ever grown.

5/21/2004 6:54:06 AM

Deer Park, WI

I agree Chuck, something aint right. Last fall i added probably 2 inches of leaves (good stuff, not the black walnut used in the past...lol) as well as some turkey manure. (which may explain the drop in pH) Also had a subsoiler come thru and make one pass, ripping to a depth of 18". I dont think this would alter my levels tho, cuz it doesnt move any dirt around, just makes a deep cut.

Other than that, everything else is the same. Methinks the lab is playing a mean trick on me.

Thanks for the input folks.

5/21/2004 8:43:16 AM