SD51555
5 year old buck +
Hot off the journey thru the new weed book, the big idea to wipe out my weeds is calcium. In this little experiment, I’m going to put out a hot rate of gypsum and a little more lime on my yard plot. It has already gotten about 3,000 lbs/ac of mostly lime and a little gypsum over the last 4 years.
Size: 1/10th acre
Target species: Burdock, brome grass, hairy vetch
Gypsum rate: 2,000 lbs/ac
(C) Lime rate: 1,000 lb/ac
All three of those weed thrive in low calcium soils. I think I’ve had some luck with other high rate apps of gypsum. I had small pockets of sedge grass in one of my plots and I was tired of spraying. I laid the gypsum in deep on the clumps, like a half inch deep in and around the edge. There’s no sedge there anymore. Is that economical? No, but there’s got to be a lower rate where that still works.
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Size: 1/10th acre
Target species: Burdock, brome grass, hairy vetch
Gypsum rate: 2,000 lbs/ac
(C) Lime rate: 1,000 lb/ac
All three of those weed thrive in low calcium soils. I think I’ve had some luck with other high rate apps of gypsum. I had small pockets of sedge grass in one of my plots and I was tired of spraying. I laid the gypsum in deep on the clumps, like a half inch deep in and around the edge. There’s no sedge there anymore. Is that economical? No, but there’s got to be a lower rate where that still works.
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