Nutrient management for vegetable crops - LandWISE - Promoting sustainable land management

Guidelines to ensure collection of soil for nutrient testing enables a valid result to be obtained

Soil sampling before side dressing so justified rates can be determined and applied

Watch the webinar on Soil Sampling and Nutrient Management

Course Curriculum

Start Next Lesson Limiting factors

Nutrient management principles

Limiting factors

Optimum nutrient levels and the effect of pH

Nutrient interactions and deficiencies

Recommendations for vegetables

Is nitrogen a special case?

Additional Resources

Nutrient management principles

Taking representative samples

Dealing with variability

Overall sampling pre-planting

Sampling before side-dressing

Sampling after harvest

Sending samples to a laboratory

Taking representative soil samples

Nitrogen

The nitrogen cycle

Keep it in the root zone

Nutrient Budgeting

Why prepare a nutrient budget?

Prepare a pre-planting nitrogen budget

Prepare a post-harvest nitrogen budget

Prepare a phosphorous nutrient budget

Nutrient Budgeting

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