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Sounds like maybe your sampling depth has changed. Your lime probably moves down through the soil slowly. If you get a little more dirt below the zone where your lime is, the pH could read low. To be accurate you need to sample to the same depth every time. Another thing, make sure you're taking...
Around here, you have to cage your black berries to keep the deer off in the late winter. I've fertilized some along my driveway hoping for a better yield. The deer homed in on them and browsed them off like a sickle bar mower. BTW 2-4-d kills them nicely.
Thanks guys. Pretty encouraging sounding posts. Depending on how much material is there when I get ready to plant, I'll probably just spray, sow and fertilize, then hit lightly with the disc. I've got a little stretch of roadside to plant also. Probably won't disc that, because is pretty rocky.
It was covered in multifloral rose and autumn olive for about 20 years. There are daisys that come up in the summer. I'm not opposed to tilling, but am afraid it will stir up more seed than I want to see sprout.I could till and wait for the junk to sprout then spray before seeding.
I'm going to plant strips of sorghum for a screen around an established clover plot. I've read that no till is best for weed control and moisture preservation in sorghum. I don't have a drill. I do have a pto tiller, disc, harrows, brushhog, roller, and a tank sprayer. Would a light tillage...
If it's just brush and briars, you may be as well off leaving the mulch. It's extra organic material, will hold in moisture, and you'd be surprised how fast it will rot. I cleared a field of multifloral rose and autumn olive a couple years back. I scalped the biggest stuff with a dozer, brush...
If you have bare dirt, you could frost seed around the end of february. I live in southern WV and my pH is horrible. If you don't get it right first, you shouldn't expect much from yout plot. I'd say dont rush things. Test soil, correct soil, control weeds, and then grow your foodplot. In my...