Rit
5 year old buck +
Anyone else? Is there no one else? I am not sure about anyone else but I find this stuff beyond fascinating. If I had a do over I’d become a soil scientist. I bet I read something about soil health everyday. Initially out of necessity because of my heavy heavy clay but now it’s strictly because I enjoy the fact finding missions.
In the plot above you will find a lot of sorghum, millets, sunflowers, grasses, sunn hemp, clovers, peas, beans, brassicas, and so much more. I’d say conservatively there are at least 16 different seeds. Most of the beans and sunflowers were browsed out. Even some weeds due to no rain and heavy clay. I will be drilling into this mix around Labor Day. I have not quite decided how I will proceed. I may drill green, then clip half then spray. But whatever I decide this will probably be the last time I spray my plot. I am hoping to have a heavy stand of Winter Rye by next Spring.
I have mentioned before but I love Sorghum. There are 5 different varieties of sorghum in this plot. The bottom picture is young sorghum plant maybe 30 days old. The root structure is spectacular. I bet on the sorghum still growing those roots go down 36”. I broke one off that over wintered last year and they were 18” at the break.
I no longer visit my plots without a shovel. I dig up most species several times a year to look at the roots just to see what I can learn. I have considered buying a microscope to look at the soil biology.