I got my results from this year's soil tests back from UVM. This is before I added any compost and such. These are screen shots of the results so not very accessible if you're using a blind reader. Apologies from my accessibility-friendly side.
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| North End |
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| South End soil tests |
Nutrients in both of these gardens are really high though the soil organic matter (OM) is surprisingly not. For the north end to have 4.2% OM after having 20 bags of leaves on it winter before last, piles of compost in the planting holes during the year and lots of straw left on top.. I can only imagine how low that number was before!
The high phosphorus is indicative of years of manure based compost being applied and it's a problem across the state. I'd like to switch to a non-manure based compost at some point but that's going to take some research. If I had space and time to grow all of my own nutrients with rotations, it would be my first goal.
All in all, some pretty nice soil!
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