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How do you all handle fertilizing? If you're a farmer, you can just do a soil test and fertilize the whole field the same (?). But a gardener, planting row crops - seems more complicated. I do a rotation of eight plots - brassicas, peas and beans, 2 fallow, corn, cucurbits, nightshade, and mixed. Especially in the mixed plot the vegetables require different nutrient levels. It's too expensive to test every plot or row or half-row! What's the best idea ya think? Over the years I have just done random testing and fertilizer is kind of random too. I get OK results I guess, but I dream of optimizing...
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