SAMPLE SOIL AMENDMENT PLAN · RF-4

Tomato bed + separate blueberry bed

This University of Missouri validation fixture shows why incompatible crop targets must remain in separate management branches. One soil-measurement set may support more than one crop analysis, but opposite pH directions are never averaged into one amendment program.

Tomato branch

Water-equivalent pH: 5.94915

Target: midpoint 6.5 from the supported 6.0–7.0 range.

Released correction: fish bone meal 3-16-0 at 2.5 lb per 100 sq ft for the supported phosphorus correction.

Hold: exact lime product weight remains held until the required target-specific lime function and product neutralizing value are verified.

Blueberry branch

Target: midpoint pH 5.0 from the supported 4.8–5.2 range.

Constraint: the tested native soil fails the blueberry calcium ceiling and organic-matter criterion.

Action: establish and test a separately contained, low-calcium, high-organic-matter acid bed.

Boundary: do not combine the tomato and blueberry soil programs.

Application path

Reuse the saved bed geometry; do not request the area again downstream.
Apply the released tomato phosphorus correction only to the tomato bed.
Withhold tomato lime until its exact rate is supported.
Prepare and test the blueberry bed separately.
Retest before repeating a target-building correction.

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