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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

"I think it's the Gardens Alive catalog that showed me I needed boron for my strawberries. Stands to reason if they need it, it's deficient here.

I thought gardening was supposed to be fun! Or was that relaxing? "

 

Hi Toni,

 

You may know, boron is VERY easy to overdo.  Too much and it can sterilize the soil.  I've read somewhere around 1ppm is about right.  A foot acre of soil weighs about 4 million pounds.  That means if you had NO boron, you would need about 4 lbs./acre of pure boron to bring it up to recommended levels.

 

Mark

Zone 5 Kansas