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Dear All,
Everything, apart from plants dinged by the freeze of June 3/4, is=20
very green here this year suggesting unusually high Nitrogen. Is=20
foliage unusually rank and green elsewhere in NS ?
In more typical winters, snow comes before intense cold so there is=
=20
continuous slow melting of snow from below and downward infiltration of=20
melt water and consequently some loss of mobile soil nutrients such as=20
N, SO4, Ca and Mg from the topsoil and sometimes from the root zone. In=20
Eastern Kings there was deep frost penetration and snow melt frequently=20
just ran off, frozen soil being relatively impermeable.
This would not apply to SW NS (Banana belt) and much of south shore=20
[and being a seat of pants diagnosis may not apply here]. The symptom=20
of high N could also be due to unusually N rich acid rain imported from=20
points W & S of NS; e.g. more low grade coal being burned in US for=20
power generation. Much of our acid rain used to come from the Ohio area=20
(?).
Yt, DW, Kentville
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<body>Dear All,<div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Everything, apart from plants dinged by t=
he freeze of June 3/4, is very green here this year suggesting unusually hi=
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iv><div>=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0In more typical winters, snow comes b=
efore intense cold so there is continuous slow melting of snow from below a=
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soil nutrients such as N, SO4, Ca and Mg from the topsoil and sometimes fr=
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w melt frequently just ran off, frozen soil being relatively impermeable.=
=C2=A0</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 This would not apply to SW NS (Banana belt)=
and much of south shore [and being a seat of pants diagnosis may not apply=
here]. =C2=A0The symptom of high N could also be due to unusually N rich ac=
id rain imported from points W & S of NS; e.g. more low grade coal bein=
g burned in US for power generation. =C2=A0Much of our acid rain used to co=
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