Most of the time the N will be gone by next year. Most of the other minerals from compost will still be there. Carrots, radishes and beans should never be fertilized if you have good soil, so you should have success with these next year without any fert. I would not plant these plants together with tomatoes or other plants which do require some N. Can you make another bed and separate the vegetables?

It's rare to have so much N that the fruiting gets clobbered beyond a nuisance stage. If you try to tie it up with uncomposted stuff like wood chips, remember that finer stuff like sawdust will have a bigger impeding effect than chips because of the greater surface area relative to wood mass. Maybe do nothing. Excessive N will go away in just a little bit of time.

Incidentally, I use a ton of manure, bury all my garbage, and only one tomato plant had any BER last season (and its whole fruiting was affected). Definitely just watering.

Agreed that the problem will tend to fix itself over the winter. Dilution isn't a good strategy. You could also dig in uncomposted material at the end of the season (ground up leaves, for example and, as you say, wood chips, if you can wait longer for them to decompose). That will use a lot of nitrogen as well as improve your soil texture. Too much nitrogen is a problem everyone should have!

Plant corn next year.Corn is strong consumer of N.

were you adding addition fertilizer to the growing crops? I would do a soil test to find out what is going on. I am wondering where your PH is at. what is "organic triple mix"?

"Can you make another bed and separate the vegetables?"

Yes, I will be making at least two new beds next year so I'll be able to split everything up appropriately.

"I am wondering where your PH is at. what is "organic triple mix"?"

The soil I used is a certified organic mix of Peat Moss, Manure, Black Peat Loam & Mushroom Compost. I purchased a soil test from my local hardware store and the N was high, PH was between 6.5-7.0.

So the overall consensus is to do nothing... I was planning on covering my bed with shredded leaves for the winter. Can this do any harm at this point?

Although it may be too late in your area, plant kale or any other cool weather leafy crop. Yes, I would cover the beds with a mulch. Very early in the spring, get a soil test done; then plant early spinach, kale, and brassicas. Any excess Nitrogen which hasn't leeched away, gassed off, or used in decomp will be used up by those early crops.

You didn't have toxic amounts of N, or this years plantings would have failed. You may have had as you suspected, a little too much for the fruiting plants.

By the time you are harvesting the spring crops, your soil test will have come back from your county ext. You'll know exactly how fertile your soil is and you'll be in good shape for the summer.

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In this case I agree with the others - do nothing. Simple time fixes any high N issues.

But for future reference those do it yourself kits are a rip-off and quite famous for being inaccurate. What they are actually testing is the water you mix with them so you should never do anything to your soil based on one of them. For about the same price you can get a professional soil test done through your local county ag extension office.

Dave

You could cover your bed with shredded leaves, but it'll do a lot more good to dig them in. Especially if you're trying to use up nitrogen. Aeration will help remove ammonia, which is a volatile form of nitrogen that comes out of urea that bacteria use to produce non-volatile nitrates. Covering your bed with a top dressing won't help that aeration.