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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Not too impressive, but it isnt even April yet.
I think the onions look plenty healthy but I did two bioassays here and both indicated the soil could be better. So I added dolomite and some bone meal and miracle grow. Its still a guessing game but so far doing the bioassays has been surpringly helpful. They also do a good job of indicating the weed pressure you will face because.... they measure the level of viable weed seeds in addition to nutrients and the water holding capacity and diseases. (Admittedly it may be hard to tell a root disease from a nutrient deficiency, but thats why multiple plants should be used because not all will be susceptible to the same diseases. For example spinich is susceptible to fusarium I think... I need to do more research to pick the best plants that will indicate the soil problems the best. The point is, if the spinich died, or was sickly, but something resistant to fusarium did great, you'd have a good idea of what the problem could be and that nutrients wasnt the problem even though if you had only planted spinach, you might look at it and guess there was a nitrogen deficiency or something. Hence multiple plants.
In the bioassay pots, I planted beans and corn and cosmos... But the tomatoes are the biggest so that all you can see in the picture.
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