Wonder Pie 2021 Season 2

April 19: watered with barley sprouts and Nature’s Source. Sprayed soil and leaves at lights out with LAB, and potassium silicate. 4/20 😎. April 22: morning water with barley sprouts, molasses, and vinegar to get pH near 6. Sprout solids applied as top dressing on soil. Plants looked good this morning. April 23: topped WP1 and applied some barley SST with some solids as top dressing. Still too cold to be put outside so I’ll delay transplanting a bit longer. April 25: looks good but yellowing on new growth later in day indicates magnesium deficiency. Pinch of Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) in spray bottle fixed that amazingly quickly. As a deficiency that might be due to the cold. It was nicely sunny today but ground is still cool and I noticed the chlorosis after she had been sitting on the ground for a while. Also another foliar spray at lights out (LAB @ 1:50 dilution, KSiO4 at 1:2000 dilution, and another pinch of MgSO4). April 26: yellowing indicates a magnesium deficiency and I suspect that is due to the high sodium levels in the well water and the relatively cool temperatures. Sprayed with some Epsom salts and calcium citrate in water which seems to help but the real problem is the cation ratio in the source water (95% sodium). The SAR (sodium adsorption ratio) for this water is super high at 20 which is the worst category where >15 is “unacceptable do not use”. Yikes. So, the garden soil needs gypsum, and the water needs to be hardened by exchanging sodium for calcium and magnesium.