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My attempt to explain ph in 60 seconds

Cannot believe we are into velvet season already!! Cannot wait to watch these suckers grow!!!

Just using our fish+humics - working to create more biomass, period. However, I also have plfa, conventional and Haney tests here to further analyze if needed. In the above post when I say “foliar applications” I simply mean, that using them to drive biomass will be helpful if/when I have...

Ok ok. I know I know - I talk about exclusion fences a lot but I just cannot explain the importance enough. I continue to learn from them. This field is new and has a sub 5 ph (although lime has been applied). Deer are eating in it often and it’s a good sized field (a few acres). All that...

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A few soil testing tips

Yall got me excited so I did a quick update on the mowing of garden crop.

have you tried just staggering the mowing? I plan to try this with crimping. Crimp when planting and then crimp again a week or two later. Or even mow high a week or two later to hit anything that pops up. The young seedlings shouldn’t get damaged as they’ll be small and the results should be...

So there is some extremely impressive USDA studies on flail mowers for multi species cover crop termination - I agree with you. I just terminated my fall carbon load in my garden (seen above) with a push mower haha. Ill update progress today or tomorrow but it’s amazing the rate of term. As...

So that depends on the growers goals. I think the key to HV is how much and a little goes a long way!! I’ve kept it around 1-2% of total mix and it produces enough biomass without binding up a bushog. You throw a full acre rate out there - it’ll get thick fast. Because of that lower rate -...

Yes sir. We don’t use hairy vetch in our NB (only did year one) but since we wanted to use it in fall. We use American joint vetch in NB. That way there is more diversity on a single field between the two plantings (very little species overlap). Carbon load has 16 species - most make it...

“Some of the biomass is almost as tall as me” - not bad when the guy on the other end is 6’3!!! The numbers of texts about the biomass the Carbon Load creates is far too great to even share. This will get planted with our NitroBoost very soon and all that above ground biomass will be converted...

Before and after - This year I wanted to get another cover crop growing, prior to putting tomatoes in the ground. With this unusually early Summer - I seeded our NitroBoost into the Carbon Load. I allowed it to get started and then mowed off the carbon Load to create a dense thatch. I will...

I’ve always loved to grow things. Of course being on a tractor is a blast but working on soil health in my garden, saving seeds, growing seeds passed down for generations is also a passion. Today I started my first phase of transplanting. Tomatoes can be transplanted very deeply and it allows...