Lloyd-- Thanks for your comments. The sodium column in the soil test is blank so I guess they didn't test for it.
I have just started using fish + kelp on the crop ground this year so maybe we will see some improvement. Also, I feed my worms kelp meal as part of their diet and then use the vermicompost for the compost tea base. So maybe it's a matter of time. Two presenters at the Organic Farming conference this spring mentioned that the only 2 ways to increase organic matter in the soil are 1) grass roots and 2) livestock manure. They commented that all the rye, clover, etc. cover cropping that has been promoted is useful for other things, such as N retention, erosion prevention, but doesn't do much for increasing OM. Dorothy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
