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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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It has been brutally cold, winter started early and has not let up. Fortunately we haven't gotten too much snow.....Yet. We have a long way to go before we round the corner towards spring. I just purchased some high calcium lime crushed lime for the patch. I went right to the Allyndale lime quarry and got it for $1.87 a bag! That is a lot less than the feed store was asking for it. I wish I had, had a chance to put it down this past fall. The pH has come up quite a bit since I started the new patch in the fall of '08. In the fall of '08 it had a pH of 5.1! I applied dolomitic crushed limestone (that fall) and the pH was 6.3 this fall when I tested. I usually only get around to a once a year soil test. Here is what it came back as.
My percent base saturations were
52% calcium
18.5% magnesium
4.4 % Potassium
C.E.C. 17.8 Meq/100g
All micronutrient levels are normal, a little on the low end.
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