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Cant seem to raise nitrogen in soil

svirfnebli
12 years ago

Hello All.

This year I started my first garden. I've make 16" tall raised beds (Beds are 8x3). The bottom 10" of soil is fill dirt (from agromin) and the top 6" is a 50/50 mix of eb stone compost and "top soil". My mulch is "fine orchid bark". I'm watering using micro sprinklers every other day for 6 minutes.

All the plants seem to be suffering from nitrogen deficiency - Slow grown, yellow leaves, etc. And my home soil test kit indicates virtually no nitrogen. The wierd part is that i've been taking steps to raise the nitrogen yet nothing seems to be working. I've used fish emulsion (twice by soil application and twice by foliar), and used two cups of blood meal per raise bed (24sqft).

What am I doing wrong, and why wont the nitrogen increase?

Other information

PH About 7.1

Phosphorus: Sufficient

Potash: Sufficient

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