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To: TEXOKIE
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Much of that phosphate will remain due to the clay soil.
When you aerate the soil in the fall or spring , it will break up much of the soil and redistribute the fertilizer.
That would be the ideal time to add more organic matter and compost to break up the soil and lighten the soil even more .
Lesson learned !

234 posted on 09/30/2013 10:38:51 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Well, fortunately (or not) I did not really put any into the okra/sunflower dirt patch with the clay.

This all went onto the pots. What I will need to do is make sure the pots I use next time have dirt that is not too phospataceous! Since most of my pots seem to be doing well at the moment relatively speaking, the challenge will be to remember which pot it is that contains the inordinate amounts of phosphate!


255 posted on 09/30/2013 4:07:20 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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