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The Place that did my soil testing Gave me a sheet on what
numbers need to be raised.

"Percent Base saturations "

% K 1.4 Add Potassium Sulfate 200 # / Acre

% MG 6.8 Add Mag Sulfate 150 # / Acre

Boron 0.6 2-3 # / Acre


Now My question is.

I go out and purchase a bag of each supplement
can all of these be added and tilled into the soil at same time as per instructed by bag?

dureing the next week I plan on tilling in some "aged" manure along with 4 bags of Peat Moss and grass clippings
and leafs, then come next week plan on planting my cover crop of "winter Rye" for a nice "green manure" come spring

was just curious if its safe to add all of these items to a patch at one time or should they be added at different weeks so they dont mix?

just curious thanks

Dave

10/2/2004 10:35:10 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

Looks like they are trying to adjust PH with all the sulfates and trying to get you mg/ca a little more in balance...No expert but thats the way it looks to me...Do I have this right??? A mix will do fine till it in good.
Grow Em Big! Chuck

10/3/2004 8:23:27 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Dave,

They may be added at the same time. Since your soil deficienies are in "common situation", there are preperations that speak more of less to the issues you have.

Example: Sulfate of Potash Magnesia is sold under trade names like "K-Mag" or "Sul-Po-Mag". Tis material has twice as much Potash as Magnesium (20-22% K & 10-11% Mg). Thus if applied to the magnesium standard, the additional potash is still in range. So you can support both needs with just one bag of material.

Boron still needs to be addressed with a Borax product.

10/3/2004 8:23:54 AM

Canada

Great, Thanks for the information
I'll let you know what I come up with this afternoon

Dave

10/3/2004 12:25:55 PM