Soil Help
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:48 pm
I'm trying to grow organic and to truck farm. I'm in south Mississippi where we don't get much winter and we get tons of sun, hot humid and tons of rain.
My question is after getting my results from my soil sample I have good soil as my P & K along with most micronutrients are high to very high, pH is 6.6 and low in salts. The ONLY thing I'm low on is Nitrogen, they said I needed 80lbs of nitrogen per acre and I'm planning on doing 2 acres of crops so my question is what would be best to raise my N levels...
I'm planting alyce clover in a month or 2 after flipping the soil (it was a cow field thats now got grass, clover and weeds growing in it now). I'm planning on flipping the top 8" and then disking it and overseeding it with clover. My Idea is then to disk it under in the fall and growing a fall crop this year. And possibly adding some feather meal to get the N up.
I can get all the free chicken and horse manure I want (10 tons of either), but my thinking is that atm I don't need to do that as they also have allot of other nutrients in them and I'd be possibly causing problems by adding a few tons of manure to my soil at this time.
Am I correct in my thinking or should I use the manure? Should I use feather meal? Is there a cheaper option? (Alfalfa meal is about the same price per pound of N when I buy em in bulk.)
My question is after getting my results from my soil sample I have good soil as my P & K along with most micronutrients are high to very high, pH is 6.6 and low in salts. The ONLY thing I'm low on is Nitrogen, they said I needed 80lbs of nitrogen per acre and I'm planning on doing 2 acres of crops so my question is what would be best to raise my N levels...
I'm planting alyce clover in a month or 2 after flipping the soil (it was a cow field thats now got grass, clover and weeds growing in it now). I'm planning on flipping the top 8" and then disking it and overseeding it with clover. My Idea is then to disk it under in the fall and growing a fall crop this year. And possibly adding some feather meal to get the N up.
I can get all the free chicken and horse manure I want (10 tons of either), but my thinking is that atm I don't need to do that as they also have allot of other nutrients in them and I'd be possibly causing problems by adding a few tons of manure to my soil at this time.
Am I correct in my thinking or should I use the manure? Should I use feather meal? Is there a cheaper option? (Alfalfa meal is about the same price per pound of N when I buy em in bulk.)