I have some poor soil that I'm trying to get some food plots established in. When would be the best time to put out the granular N? Disc it in with the seeds or wait a few weeks after the plants emerge and top sow?
I have some poor soil that I'm trying to get some food plots established in. When would be the best time to put out the granular N? Disc it in with the seeds or wait a few weeks after the plants emerge and top sow?
What is the pH? If it is poor, it is a waste of time and money to put out fertilizer as the vast majority of the nutrients would not be able to be absorbed. Have you done a soil test?
If you haven’t and just want to get something In the ground, I would disc, fert, plant and pack somehow. I would fertilize at a heavy rate, knowing most would leach through soil without helping out your food plots.
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I had a soil test done last year and the Ph was 4.5. This past fall I tilled in a good bit of Ag. lime then earlier this Spring I tilled in some pellet lime. I haven't had another soil test done because I know it's not anywhere near where it needs to be. The property was either an old tobacco farm or they used a lot of littler because the phosphorus is off the chart, literally. 46-0-0 and a high pot ash (I can't remember which right off and I don't have the test with me) was recommended for a fall mix.
However, I decided to try a summer mix of peas, soy beans, buckwheat, and may throw in some sunflowers. This mix shouldn't need a lot of N, but would still need the potash, correct? My thought was to hope for good growth then till under later on to put some organic matter back into the soil. My main goal is to get the soil suitable for a fall mix of plants.
Another option is spraying the plants with a liquid fertilizer once they come up.
Last edited by StrutnBPS; 04-13-2020 at 10:49 AM.
Plow it. Spin on your fertilizer and seed. Then drag it in and pray for rain.
I've been planting Sunn Hemp for soil building. It grows like a weed (crotalaria juncea) and doesn't need much in the way of fertilizer and it puts a lot of nitrogen back into the soil. It doesn't reseed or volunteer. Deer eat the hell out of it but they can't keep up. It makes a lot of organic matter.
I have only planted it by itself. It would probably shade out anything else. It gets 6-8 feet tall.
Actually, I did plant some velvet beans with it one year. They were supposed to ladder on the taller hemp. Some grew but I wasn't impressed with the velvet beans.
Buckwheat is my favorite summer crop. Can easily grow 2 crops with one planting and deer like it too.
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