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Ohio

Just to help you feel better about your garden look at these numbers. P.H. 9.2 - Lime test index 70- Phos.192- Potassium 1403- Magnesium 1734 - Calcium 81600 - Sodium 449- Phosphorus down to sodium is lb/acre
Base saturation% 195 - Potassium% .8 - Magnesium%3.4 -
Calcium% 95.3 - sodium% 95.5
Ca to Mg ratio is 28.2 Plan on adding 100# mag. per 1000sq ft and plenty of leaves

10/23/2003 6:20:57 PM

Tacoma, WA

Perhaps you are lost.....and your soil really came from the Love Canal!!

Stan

10/23/2003 6:28:48 PM

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There is something very wrong here.

10/23/2003 7:40:49 PM

Key West, FL

This can't be right.

10/23/2003 7:54:31 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

you're too funny Dave! :0)

10/23/2003 8:52:24 PM

Ohio

I wish I was joking. I went a little too heavy on the ashes and now have everything out of whack.

10/23/2003 9:05:34 PM

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Can you grow in an alternate patch for a few years while this one cools off? If not, you might want to start contacting the local trucking companies. It will take a nice tri-axle dump truck to move all that soil out & bring in the new stuff.

10/23/2003 9:43:16 PM

Key West, FL

It might be worth it to take a second soil test. How did you take this sample?

10/23/2003 10:17:34 PM

Wisconsin

Check out this link. There is a ton of lime in wood ashes. You need to move to a different patch.

http://www.aces.edu/department/ipm/avgash.htm

10/23/2003 11:01:32 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

Whoaa...sorry Dave, thought you were kiddin' around. I'm just a learning soil pupil, but that does not look good.

10/23/2003 11:09:06 PM

San Diego, Ca.

You sure thats not a chemical waste dump site???? LOL

10/23/2003 11:23:01 PM

Sequim, WA

Is your patch on the site of an old limstone quarry perhaps? I've been to Canal Fultan and I know that is not a ridiculous question to ask, although most of the stone in the area is sandstone and shale. If you cannot grow in another location I would start by adding some Sul-Po-Mag and elemental sulphur and pray for a lot of rain. I'm amazed even weeds would grow in soil that alkiline. Another test is a good idea, although it won't help if the similar numbers come up. I would seriously consider another growing site.

10/24/2003 12:23:13 AM

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Is ir possible that the sample that was submitted to the lab contained a very large "hunk" of ashes? If the patch wasn't well tilled prior to adding the ash, you might get some off the wall results like this.

Just how much ash was added & how & when was it incorporated?

10/24/2003 7:36:01 AM

Key West, FL

Thats what I was thinking Steve, I mean a Calcium reading of 81,600 ppm!!!!!

10/24/2003 10:56:12 AM

Ohio

I have sent in a second sample and got close to the same numbers, same lab. It is possible that I got more ash than I should have in my sample. I have tilled and will plow under then I will send a sample to a differant lab. But I like the part of no weeds growing in there. I do have a smaller patch to grow in if needed.

10/24/2003 2:46:29 PM