Alaska gardening advice: Now is the time to apply organic fertilizers to your soils so they can benefit next year’s crops.
. It is important that you tell whatever lab you use that you are an organic gardener and that you want recommendations in that vein.
I am not naive enough to believe all Alaskan gardeners will rush out and get their garden soil tested. Just remember the Law of Return. You remove from your gardens things that should decay and return nutrients to the soil. So at the very least you need to put something back into the system so it will operate properly.
Given the Law of Return, consider the nonharvested parts of the plants left in your gardens. On the one hand those cabbage stems might be moose fodder, but on the other hand, leaving the root, stems and leaves to decay makes violating the Law of Return a mere gardening misdemeanor instead of pulling everything and then rototilling things clean which is definitely a gardening felony.
Finally, I advise a company that produces a cellphone-based testing kit that allows you to know if your efforts are really “team with microbes” and are improving your soil. The kit measures microbial biomass which correlates with soil fertility, especially the all-important nitrogen component. A test now and one late spring should show an increase in biomass if you compost/mulch now. For $5 or so, you can check your soil’s pH and biomass at home in about 10 minutes.
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