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  • From: "Mark Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mark's soil
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:23:45 -0500

In re-reading my post, I see I omitted one thing. That is, I mulched on top
of the terraces with leaf litter, as well as underneath the terraces.

Mark
KS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Fruth" <>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 7:40 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Mark's soil


> Mark,
> Most soil contains buffers and you may have to add more acid to
achieve
> the desired pH. That is why I advise people to wait a year before
planting
> an acid-loving crop. Get the soil to the proper acidity, then plant.
> Before I planted my blueberries, I visited the University of Minnesota
> Blueberry Test Plot. There I learned that plants in too high a soil pH
> didn't exhibit choruses, rather they took on a purple color. I didn't
think
> to ask how it affected yield.
>
> >
>
> Mark wrote: "Our soil is 7.0 pH based on two different soil tests (A&L
> Labs). Last fall I decided I wanted to plant blueberries. I rented a
skid
> loader and dug out room for two blueberry beds. After removing a
> significant amount of topsoil and piling it up. I put a generous amount of
> leaf litter down. Then added some sulfur on the leaf litter. Then added
> the topsoil back to make a couple of terraces for the blueberry plants.
> Then added more sulfur and a little urea. In the spring I planted the
> blueberries. So far they show no signs of iron chlorosis. The funny
thing
> is though, I checked the pH of the soil at the blueberry root zone (about
4
> inches down) about a month ago. It measured still measured 7.0. It
appears
> to take awhile for the bacteria to lower the pH and for the sulfur to
leach
> down."
>
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  • [NAFEX] Mark's soil, Jim Fruth, 07/20/2009
    • Re: [NAFEX] Mark's soil, Mark Angermayer, 07/20/2009

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