{"id":1245585,"date":"2023-04-16T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1245585\/"},"modified":"2023-04-16T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:41:00","slug":"soil-test-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1245585\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Test Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptc1zkgEP6g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nEarlier this spring I sent samples of the soil from all of the main growing spaces to a lab for detailed soil test analysis. The results from this year are considerably different from the test results from 3 years ago, and raise some interesting questions about the management strategies for a a few of the gardens.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 To test or not to test?<br \/>\n1:10 I\u2019m stuck with alkaline soils<br \/>\n3:00 pH isn\u2019t simple<br \/>\n3:57 Recommended proportions aren\u2019t appropriate<br \/>\n5:28 Too much potassium<br \/>\n7:42 Soils can be improved or not<br \/>\n9:35 Soil under compost is strange<br \/>\n10:58 Overview is easier<br \/>\n12:34 Sulphur deficiency and contamination<br \/>\n13:57 How to go forward<\/p>\n<p>Help me develop these gardens and make more videos through regular contributions https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/redgardens<\/p>\n<p>Or use https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/redgardens as a simple, once-off way to support this project and the time and energy that goes into making videos. Thanks so much!<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary, Ireland http:\/\/www.thevillage.ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this spring I sent samples of the soil from all of the main growing spaces to a lab for detailed soil <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1245586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24319,68757,736016,736011,318580,736017,68750,589776,68753,579161,736012,68759,68747,2982,68746,68740,68742,68745,22023,68741,68752,68744,68760,736013,68748,68743,135713,723580,592586,68761,68763,38986,68749,68758,68755,414633,68762,736014,615602,202725,68754,68751,736018,736015,68739],"class_list":{"0":"post-1245585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-adaptation","9":"tag-allotment","10":"tag-anions","11":"tag-calcareous-soil","12":"tag-calcium","13":"tag-cations","14":"tag-cloughjordan","15":"tag-deficiencies","16":"tag-ecovillage","17":"tag-evaluation","18":"tag-excess","19":"tag-exploration","20":"tag-farmer","21":"tag-food","22":"tag-gardener","23":"tag-giy","24":"tag-grow-your-own","25":"tag-grower","26":"tag-growing","27":"tag-gyo","28":"tag-ireland","29":"tag-learning","30":"tag-life-long-learning","31":"tag-magnesium","32":"tag-market-garden","33":"tag-permaculture","34":"tag-ph","35":"tag-phosphorous","36":"tag-potassium","37":"tag-power-down","38":"tag-prepper","39":"tag-red-garden","40":"tag-red-gardens","41":"tag-research","42":"tag-resilience","43":"tag-security","44":"tag-shtf","45":"tag-sodium","46":"tag-soil-test","47":"tag-sulphur","48":"tag-sustainability","49":"tag-tipperary","50":"tag-total-exchange-capacity","51":"tag-trace-elements","52":"tag-vegetables"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}