Skip to content

Back to Reading the soil test

Available Fe

Available Fe is iron the root can eat. Dumping ferrous sulphate on high-pH soil often fails this season.

Speed
  1. Available Fe。
  2. Available Fe is iron the root can eat. Dumping ferrous sulphate on high-pH soil often fails this season.。
  3. Fe hits new leaves: yellow with green veins, worst at the tip. Old leaves stay greener.。
  4. Fe hits new leaves: yellow with green veins, worst at the tip. Old leaves stay greener.。

How it appears on the sheet

Fe hits new leaves: yellow with green veins, worst at the tip. Old leaves stay greener.

A sketch. Do not fertilise from the picture alone.

Common units

Available Fe often mg/kg.

How to read the number

Fe hits new leaves: yellow with green veins, worst at the tip. Old leaves stay greener. High pH locks iron. The soil has iron; the root cannot eat it. Calcareous soils, grapes and citrus show it Easy to mix up: N yellows old leaves first; S yellows new and old; Fe yellows only new leaves with green veins Available Fe is iron the root can eat. Dumping ferrous sulphate on high-pH soil often fails this season.。

Thresholds only, not a prescription. Rates live in the field guide. This page does not hand you a bag count.

What it looks like in the field

Fe hits new leaves: yellow with green veins, worst at the tip. Old leaves stay greener.

Don’t do this

  • Yellow chased with urea.
  • Ferrous sulphate dumped on high-pH soil this season.
  • N yellows old leaves first; S yellows new and old; Fe yellows only new leaves with green veins.

Lesson video