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Message: [QUOTE="Garrofer, post: 171509, member: 7396"] Thank you all for your replies! Where to start...? The soil test that I bought doesn't use water, although our water is from a well, but anyway, the test kit came with solutions that are added to the dry soil to form a liquid, so water isn't an issue with the results. I did a lot of research before buying the kit and almost didn't buy it because many reviews said basically what I'm being told here, but for $18 i figured I may as well see what results I got. I figured it would at least give me an idea of where I was soil wise. I do compost. I have an area in the corner of my yard where all the eggshells, coffee grounds, etc go and I turn it with my roto-tiller. Problem is I don't get enough compost for my entire garden now that I've made it 3 times it's original size. One thing that I have been doing, which I'll stop is that we have oak trees all around and I've been told oak leaves make the soil acidic, so I've been removing the leaves and putting them in a pile in another corner of the yard. I guess from now on I'll just roto-till them into the garden in the fall. One side of my property has quite a bit of moss so that's why I figured that my soil had too much acid and that's why I haven't been using the oak leaves. But now, back to my original issue. Chuck says to feed the soil, not the plant. So should i add the dried blood to the soil along with the compost before planting, as the dried blood is not a chemical fertilizer, or not use it at all? If i use a 20-20-20 fertilizer as treeguy mentions, won't that bring my phosphorus level way up as it's in the normal mode now? Just trying to get a better garden than I did last year. Thanks again for all your comments. [/QUOTE]

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