Summer Garden 2022

[skyhightree1]

Getting ready

 

[sstterry]

Getting ready

So what fertilize mix are you going to use, or will it depend on the individual plants?

 

[skyhightree1]

So what fertilize mix are you going to use, or will it depend on the individual plants?

I always use triple 19

 

[skyhightree1]

What's got me confused though is the potassium is still clear so.im wondering if it's too high.. it didn't shade at all and I did the test twice

 

[sstterry]

What's got me confused though is the potassium is still clear so.im wondering if it's too high.. it didn't shade at all and I did the test twice

But you have plenty of Phosphorus. You may just be really low on K. I would ask Kenny Thomas. He knows his fertilizers.

 

[kenny thomas]

But you have plenty of Phosphorus. You may just be really low on K. I would ask Kenny Thomas. He knows his fertilizers.

You give me way too much credit because I actually have never done a home kit test. In VA we can send it off and get results in about 4 days. But I think I will look at some of the test kits?

 

[jltrent]

From my experience triple 19 works good on some plants, but others, especially tomatoes and beans you get big green plants and not a lot of fruit, if you apply heavy in my soil type.

 

[sstterry]

You give me way too much credit because I actually have never done a home kit test. In VA we can send it off and get results in about 4 days. But I think I will look at some of the test kits?

I didn't mean the home test, I meant the results. It appears to me that Sky will be spending money he does not need to on K and maybe he needs to move more to P. Garden plants are specific as to needs.

 

[kenny thomas]

I didn't mean the home test, I meant the results. It appears to me that Sky will be spending money he does not need to on K and maybe he needs to move more to P. Garden plants are specific as to needs.

I can't read the test results on my phone. Most people are guilty of spreading too much K especially in pastures. I took some tests on a farm that showed levels of K so high that the cows could not get the Mag needed. K will stay in pastures with very little loss.
I know it would be hard but I suspect that as jltrent stated different vegetables have different needs

 

[Dave]

I can't read the test results on my phone. Most people are guilty of spreading too much K especially in pastures. I took some tests on a farm that showed levels of K so high that the cows could not get the Mag needed. K will stay in pastures with very little loss.
I know it would be hard but I suspect that as jltrent stated different vegetables have different needs

Back when I was working there was a dairy I worked with who was having cow health issues caused by extremely high K. Calcium, magnesium, and potassium are close enough to one another that plants will luxury consume one when it is present at much higher levels than the other two. In this case luxury consumed K left the calcium and magnesium out of the diet. We know what a lack of those two in a cows diet can do.
Different plants absolutely have different requirements. However it is difficult in a lot of garden situations to fertilize one row one way and the next row over differently.

 

[skyhightree1]

I talked to extension agent.. and the company who makes the tests. They said literally there's no potassium in my soil which caused my problems growing white potatoes.

 

[hurleyjd]

My Dad started growing watermelons commercial in the early fifties and up through the seventies. He always used 5-10-5. Some under the furrow and another application as a side dress when the melons started running. He left more melons in the field in the fall than most growers make now. There were enough wild bees to keep the melons pollinated. Bees are not as common in the area as they were back then. A lot of the soil in my area has enough phosphorus now to last a long time. Applying chicken litter creates a lot of phosphorus over the years with heavy applications of the litter.

 

[hurleyjd]

My grandpa Dowdy was a great fruit grower and gardener. One thing that he used for fertilizing for his Irish potatoes was wood ashes he had saved from the fireplace and cook stove for that purpose. There was a large manure pile in the middle of the cow lot that he tossed all of the fresh manure on top. When needing the manure for the garden or corn patch he dug out near the bottom of the pile for the aged manure.

 

[sstterry]

My grandpa Dowdy was a great fruit grower and gardener. One thing that he used for fertilizing for his Irish potatoes was wood ashes he had saved from the fireplace and cook stove for that purpose. There was a large manure pile in the middle of the cow lot that he tossed all of the fresh manure on top. When needing the manure for the garden or corn patch he dug out near the bottom of the pile for the aged manure.

Wood ash is a great source of potassium and it neutralizes soil acidity like lime.

 

[skyhightree1]

It's in the ground

 

[Banjo]

I'm doing a no-till garden this year.

 

[sstterry]

I'm doing a no-till garden this year.

Are you going to "burn" down the plot first, and if so, what chemical are you using?

 

[TexasRancher]

It's in the ground

What kind of soil do you have there...sandy loam? Looks like you're close to some kind of waterway. Soil looks great for potatoes...you'd put Idaho potatoes out of business. Is it the camera lens or is that sand?

 

[skyhightree1]

What kind of soil do you have there...sandy loam? Looks like you're close to some kind of waterway. Soil looks great for potatoes...you'd put Idaho potatoes out of business. Is it the camera lens or is that sand?

You're right it's Sandy loam soil. Not particularly near a waterway. It just rained when the pic was taken that makes it look moist. Soils really Sandy.

 

[1982vett]

Good on you....that new garden tractor seems to plow a straighter row too.