Nutrient management is part of a suite of farming practices aimed at supporting healthy soil and protecting water quality. Nutrients for vegetable crop production are managed with crop rotation, cover cropping, soil testing, and appropriate and timely applications of fertilizers and soil amendments.
Nutrient Management Planning Tools
Testing
- UVM Agricultural and Environmental Testing Lab
- University of Maine Soil Testing Lab
- Fact sheet: Testing for Soil, Plant, Compost, and Water Quality (PDF)
- Fact sheet: Soil Testing in High Tunnels (PDF)
- Fact sheet: Interpreting Heavy Metals Soil Test Results (PDF)
- Fact sheet: Soil Testing after Flooding (PDF)
This work is supported by Vermont's Clean Water Incentive Program
and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets
