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[Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>]

Jim,
You've written before how much soil testing has benefitted your growing
efforts.  Getting levels of boron, zinc and copper are obviously more than
the typical university N-P-K and Ph test...so where should I look to get
these useful soil tests?
Charlie Paradise  z6 Massachusetts
On 5/13/06 8:57 AM, "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@uslink.net> wrote:

>   The micronutrients that are most likely to leach out of sandy soils are
> Boron, Zinc, Sulfur and Copper.  In heavy soils, these same, and other
> micronutrients, tend to become depleted where the bedrock is close to the


> surface.  These are excellent reasons for doing soil testing.