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Redbaron · December 13, 2015

I think you are good to go as long as you have worms and mycorrhizal fungi. Plenty of SOM to have locked up even maybe too much nitrogen, but as the SOM gets digested by the soil biota, it will become available for the plants in a process called mineralization. The key here for you is to give the soil microbes and worms a chance to catch up. Something like this might help: Mycogrow

ps. The Haney test gives you a better idea of exactly how much nitrogen will be released due to biological activity. I am just making an educated guess since the type of soil test you got was designed for standard NPK fertilizers, not organic biological based fertility.

December 13, 2015	#34
Redbaron Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 4,488	I think you are good to go as long as you have worms and mycorrhizal fungi. Plenty of SOM to have locked up even maybe too much nitrogen, but as the SOM gets digested by the soil biota, it will become available for the plants in a process called mineralization. The key here for you is to give the soil microbes and worms a chance to catch up. Something like this might help: Mycogrow ps. The Haney test gives you a better idea of exactly how much nitrogen will be released due to biological activity. I am just making an educated guess since the type of soil test you got was designed for standard NPK fertilizers, not organic biological based fertility. __________________ Scott AKA The Redbaron "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." Bill Mollison co-founder of permaculture