lime

[poorboy]

Same here Richard, in fact as low as some of the trucks can put it on is 3 tons a acre. While I am typing this tonight there is a truck in the bottom with a busted gear box on the blower and twenty tons on lime on it. It seems that this cold snap froze some and put too much strain on the gear box.

This is the year for lime on parts of the farm about 200 tons this year and the same next.

Patrick

 

[poorboy]

I would probably try to buy some of the pelletized lime and spread it with a cone. Maybe just have someone dump it from the quarry and then spead it with a cone.. My buddy spread a ton by hand the other day and it really turned into a chore but he had no choice and it did get done.

Good luck either way. And watch the wind /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Patrick

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I spread pelletized lime on an acre of lawn with my four foot drop spreader. It works well. Pelletized lime is a lot mor expensive but it is much easier to work with.

John

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Well you learn something every day,if you can just remember what you've learned.He did say food plot?To me that means deer food.So........ I bet [unless this plot is in the desert],if he just went with less than half that amount of lime and added some 10-10-10he would get what he was after.Of course you got to stir up the ground some way or the other,plant things in a combination that has a reputation for growing[by combination I mean planting a cover crop along with the various mixture of crop seeds]He may not need to mulch unless he tills the plot up loosely.You take a pickup, a bucket,something to drink,a seeder[hand type],and you could have an acre seeded,limed,and fertilized in half a day,I guess it depends on what you brought to drink.

 

[Molerj]

I believe that by "food plot" he meant a garden that he will be growing vegetables in.

 

[IllMarty]

CCI, Where did you get that ratio of hydrated lime/ ag lime? Marty

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I guess that is possible.But let me tell you a one acre garden is a extra extra large size.Of course he could be selling sweet corn or planning to anyways.About 70 yards by 70 yards is an acre.I've never heard anyone call a vegitable patch a food plot for home or selling but I MAY as a result of this forum.

 

[HayDR]

When you have grown Tobacco, Sweet Corn, water melons, & tomatoes for 35 years you just pick up these things and prove them. Ag lime will only start reacting in the soil in 6 mos. but will continue there for 20 years if acidic fertilizers are not used. Nitrogen in the form of Urea & Ammonium nitrate will use up or counter the lime's base properties, its simple chemistry, acids and bases. Sodium nitrate is not as acidic as the afore mentioned nitrates and does not burn up the lime as fast in the soil. The PH of the soil is the key to healthy plants.

 

[Turfman]

Many of the ferts list the acid equivalency on the label to assist with this.

 

[BrettW]

Does regular fertilizer mess up the lime? like 10-10-10, thanks, bw