Soil test

[Bruinwar]

Hi all,

This year our new garden plots are located on land that has not been farmed in many decades (never, according to a local). It's sandy loam mineral soil, pH of 5.6. This is located at my community garden site, each plot is 750 sq. ft. These would be my wife & my own plots, I grow tomatoes, my wife grows other stuff, squash, some peppers, beans, flowers, I don't know, not important as tomatoes.

So we got 1500 sq ft. Soil test from Michigan State has a lime recommendation for mineral soils of 92 lb/1000 sq ft. so 138 lbs for our plots. That certainly seems like a LOT of lime to me. I was thinking added two 40-50 lb bags. Thoughts on that?

This would be on top of the 7 yards of compost I've already added. I also plan to add the 2-18 lb bags of TomatoTone before putting my plants in. I've got a large bag of Gardentone (unsure of the size) for my wife's plot also. Maybe we will need more?

Any ideas, thoughts, comments are welcome, thanks.

-joe