{"id":62,"date":"2008-04-28T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T00:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-04-28T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T00:29:49","slug":"soil-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/04\/soil-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned before i was suspicious of some trouble with my roughly finished compost.  I did the classic agronomic test: made a number of pots and planted corn.  Started 4\/7, three weeks ago.  Eventually i will pull them up and do quantitative measurement of the biomass grown, but for now i can already do a little qualitative guesswork:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Farm2008\/photo#5194434207259777410\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/bdiscoe\/SBZWY-TbWYI\/AAAAAAAAAds\/Ize2_Y6JzSY\/s400\/DSC02751-2-labels.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A,B,G: plain topsoil, as a control.<br \/>\nC,D: 50% topsoil, 50% compost.<br \/>\nE,F: 100% compost.<br \/>\nH: Rich, dark results of feeding manure to earthworms.<\/p>\n<p>Some tentative conclusions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It all grows quite well.  My topsoil is pretty good.<\/li>\n<li>The corn in the 100% compost looks more yellow, less green.  It must be that something is lacking, either the compost isn&#8217;t sufficiently broken down or it lacks some nutrient(s).<\/li>\n<li>The 50-50 blend is doing slightly better than straight topsoil, so the addition of compost is overall a benefit.<\/li>\n<li>H looks great. Plants just love pure worm output. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned before i was suspicious of some trouble with my roughly finished compost. I did the classic agronomic test: made a number of pots and planted corn. Started 4\/7, three weeks ago. Eventually i will pull them up and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/04\/soil-tests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crops","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}