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  • From: Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The only way to tell what your soil really needs???
  • Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:53:34 -0700 (PDT)

I understand what you're saying, but the same goes for doctors you see more than one, in most cases they will draw different conclusions for the same set of symptoms, even if its the same doctor on different days. Unfortunately I'm absolutely serious about this. If they have different specialties or are a gp vs a specialist they will almost always draw the conclusion that fits their profession/most recent marketing material/most recent patient/ or journal article. Very few can diagnose even simple infections even given a lab test.

 If you know a little about the labs testing methodology (eg are they testing for aluminum or looking at boron directly) then it gives you a clearer idea of where their biases might be. It also helps you choose a lab if you run into a similar situation later on. But just like a doctor its not something I think most people would worry about until their soil is sick and they can't read the weeds , don't know the history , can't tell from other factors, and don't have any intuition as to whats causing its condition.

---pete


--- On Sat, 8/28/10, pete <pete.rout@virgin.net> wrote:

From: pete <pete.rout@virgin.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The only way to tell what your soil really needs???
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 11:34 AM

I think what most people are saying is that as the test doesn't really tell you anything, as if you send to more than one tester you get more than one answer, is there really any point in testing?
Pete

> I'm bowing out of this discussion (and am pondering my continuance on this list).  When the majority of people here (people that I thought had more ability to reason) believe that if one were to obtain a soil test that somehow one is FORCED to use chemical fertilizers.  Where is the logic in this?
>
> I wonder what would have happened if all those revered institutions never bothered to perform soil tests?
>
> Yes, we're all fighting the corporate system, but this is starting to have all the feel of fighting fanaticism with fanaticism.
>
>
> -Mark Nagel
> Everett, WA

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