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Hi John, Sept 14, 2008
By your description, you have also experienced excessive nitrogen.
Mineralization is most rapid when soil is moist and warm. I have not
kept track of weather, but in hindsight I think Kentville (and perhaps
Yarmouth) has had an unusually large release of N this summer.
Yt, DW
John Sollows wrote:
> To: David and all
>
> From: John Sollows
>
> date: Sept. 13/08
>
> Our garden, down Yarmouth way, was fertilized with mink compost (Great
> stuff! Spectacle Lake!) for the second year in a row. Our broccoli
> plants are enormous, but with late ansd so far very small heads.
> First carrot crop (planted end of May) is normal, but those planted
> nearly amonth later have respectable heads but wee roots. Don't know
> to what I can attribute these pheniomena, which were not present in
> last year's equally well-fertilized garden.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David & Alison Webster"
> <dwebster@glinx.com>
> To: <NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 7:45 PM
> Subject: [NatureNS] Nitrogen mineralization
>
>
>> Dear All, Sept 13, 2008
>> I applied only trace amounts of nitrogen fertilizer to the garden
>> this year, beside the carrot and beet seedlings so they could outgrow
>> flea-beetle feeding, but everything has the appearence of high
>> nitrogen so I think there has been an unusually high release of
>> nitrogen by mineralization this summer.
>>
>> I am wondering if anyone else has noticed this or if it has
>> something to do with the state of my garden.
>>
>> Yt, DW, Kentville
>>
>>
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