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  • From: Marty Kraft <martyk AT allspecies.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Soil Help Needed
  • Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:09:51 -0500

We are putting in raised beds and bought three inches of compost and three
inches of soil to fill our six inch beds. I had the mixture analyzed and it
was ³too alkaline to grow vegetables². The recommendation was to add sulfur
and use nitrogen only fertilizer.

Could the high alkalinity be caused because the compost isn¹t seasoned
enough? There are small black sticks in it. I know the organic material that
isn¹t broken down will use up the soils nitrogen. Will foliar feeding be
more effective than soil application for the plants that are already up?

Learning

Marty Kraft







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