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["Doreen Howard" <gardendiva@charter.net>]

Many thanks to Eddie Earle for the USDA website where one can get a custom soil report.  What a killer app!  Way cool.

 

I'm going to share it with my readers, as I do a monthly column in two magazines.

 

I learned, actually verified my deductions, that I live on the Griswold glacier moraine, have sandy loam that drains well, have an 8 percent grade and 40 percent calcium carbonate.  I knew I had lime, but didn't realize it was that much.  That explains some of the fruit blossom problems I've been having with Montrose apricot.

 

Bob Purvis and I were talking about how to get my tree to bear fruit a couple of nights ago, and he mentioned a lack of boron.  I'm thinking the lime is tying up the boron, making it unavailable.  I may be wrong, though, as I stayed at a Holiday Inn six months ago and am not an agronomist.

 

Again, Eddie Earle, a big thanks!

Doreen Howard