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[Bob Melvin <hasnah8@yahoo.com>]

Hi, Mark,

     I would think that finding fertilizer blends without trace
elements would be fairly easy.  (Many years ago, it was difficult to
find fertilizer WITH trace elements.)  You might try a fertilizer
supply place for farmers rather than for gardeners.

     Of the trace elements mentioned, I would think only the copper
would give you real trouble if it were too high.  I was once advised
never to add copper because it is so toxic to so many plants and is
really difficult to remove from the soil.  I don't think that copper is
ever included as a trace element in commercial fertilizer, but I may be
wrong.

     More than thirty years ago, I helped my cousin apply a large
amount of dried waste treatment sludge to his future garden area.  When
he had the soil tested (after mixing in the sludge) most of the trace
elements were ten times the recommended values!  He had ENORMOUS
vegetables!

--"Bob Melvin" <hasnah8@yahoo.com>, <rfmelvin@ncsu.edu>
Ph. 919-215-2814  (Anyone may call at any time.)


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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:55:36 -0500
> From: "Mark or Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Soil Test
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> Thanks Bob,
> 
> No it wasn't obvious to me, but that sounds the simplest way. 
> Thanks.  I
> wonder though, are there fertilizers out there that are composed of
> just NPK
> and don't have any trace elements?  In other words, I wouldn't want
> to put
> on any additional Fe, Cu, Mn or Mg since the soil is already high in
> those.
> Is it possible to purchase fertilizer without those, fertilizer with
> just
> NPK?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Melvin"
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Cc: <rfmelvin@ncsu.edu>; "Bob Melvin" <hasnah8@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 5:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] nafex Digest, Vol 45, Issue 29
> 
> 
> > Hi, Mark,
> >
> >      This may or may not be obvious, and of course depends on what
> > fertilizer blends are available to you, but you don't really have
> to do
> > any MIXING.  All you have to do is make more than one application
> of
> > what you have.  That is, first, you could apply a blend that was
> fairly
> > close to what you needed.  Next, if you needed more phosphate, for
> > example, you could simply add the necessary amount of
> superphosphate in
> > a separate application.  This just makes it simpler to keep track
> of
> > how many pounds of what nutrient you have applied without having to
> > figure everything out first on paper and then go to the trouble of
> > mixing.
> >
> > --"Bob Melvin" <hasnah8@yahoo.com>, <rfmelvin@ncsu.edu>
> > Ph. 919-215-2814  (Anyone may call at any time.)
> >

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