Acceptable for Veggies?

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Acceptable for Veggies?

Postby pauly_walnutz » January 10th, 2012, 9:43 am

We have a client who is looking to purchase a property for vegetable gardening of several acres. Attached are the Logan Labs report. organic matter appears to be low. How else does everything seem? Thanks in advance.


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Re: Acceptable for Veggies?

Postby Michael Wise » January 10th, 2012, 2:38 pm

Any insight to what the property was used for previously?

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Re: Acceptable for Veggies?

Postby andy10917 » January 10th, 2012, 9:40 pm

Other than the Sodium is a tad high (especially in Sample 6), all is pretty good. That's workable soil. Yeah, the OM could go up.

Curiosity: what happened to Sample Locations 7 and 8 ???
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Re: Acceptable for Veggies?

Postby Michael Wise » January 10th, 2012, 10:11 pm

What about the phosphorus?

Is it normal for some to be that high? Im just use to seeing it much lower and hadn't seen that many come through here that high.

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Re: Acceptable for Veggies?

Postby andy10917 » January 10th, 2012, 10:33 pm

I noticed it - some soils are very high in Phosphorus (mine is a four-digit number too!) Nothing you're going to do about it in your lifetime. Plants love it, but it can be something that affects the use of other nutrients.

Live with it - you could have bigger problems.
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