No, my friend, I personally don't think you are confused. I do the same thing. I'm just asking a hypothetical question on this subject.
This spring and summer, I basically mentally thought out all the types of crops that I was going to grow too. Instead of being exact in the concerns over exact available NPK, pH, etc. I just loaded tons of homemade compost over my 3/4 acres of no-till beds, that were green manured by large thick patches of legume/grain cover crops from the winter before.
Then I basically only added extra nitrogen in the form of fish emulsions for tall, leafy, green plants.
I added extra phosphorus in the form of bone meal, corn meal, or rotten bean seeds, to any heavy flowering or fruiting crops in the planting holes in the soil.
Then I added a little extra potassium in the form of wood ashes or strong kelp teas to my root crops like potatoes or carrots.
I added a little extra dolomitic limestone under each plants that I knew needed extra Ca and Mg in their leaves or fruit like tomatoes, eggplants, and melons.
I ever sprinkled extra Epsom salt, powdered sulfur, and corn meal over every tomato plant, just in case it might have a fungal disease problem later in the season. And it did, due to the excessive raining and flooding in my area.
However, I never check my soil pH any more, or I haven't had an expert soil tests in several years now. I probably need to, just to encourage myself on how my soil has drastically improved in 3 years from a no-till system. I used to have a hard, red, heavy clay soil with a pH=5.0. Now it's around pH=6.8, with a soft, crumbly, dark, grayish flour look and texture.
I also roughly adjust the nitrogen levels in my aerated teas based on what plants I'm feeding too. Heavy nitrogen feeders like corn, get more fish or aged horse manure or grass clippings in the tea recipe, or less water dilution at application time. Heavy phosphorus feeders like tomatoes, get more water dilution or less fish, more kelp in the tea brewing recipe.
_________________ The entire Kingdom of God can be totally explained as an Organic Garden (Mark 4:26)
William Cureton
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