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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5424826" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>It's amazing how much topsoil you can produce in just a few years. My newest plot is only 2 years old. Bulldozed out the spot, never tilled it, just broadcast rye grass, turnips, and clover. 1000lbs pelletized lime and a couple bags triple 13. Rye grass did well, turnips and clover not so much.</p><p></p><p>The following spring, I nuked the thick stand of ryegrass with gly, then drilled in sorgham, millet, and buckwheat. Added another 1000lbs lime and 2 more bags of fertilizer. It did great, tons of biomass and not much weed competition.</p><p></p><p>Last fall I bushhogg3d the summer plot and drilled cereal rye, clover, and radishes plus another 100lbs fertilizer. They did great considering the browse pressure. Annual clover is still growing strong and has made it all the way through to this fall due to the thick layer of mulch/ topsoil I've produced retaining moisture. A few weeds ( mostly marestail) here and there. No need for herbicides, just clipped the marestail just above the clover, then drilled straight through the annual clover with wheat, radishes, and more clover. Another 1000lbs lime, no fertilizer yet.</p><p></p><p>They fellow that dozed in the plot came back out last week to push out another .2ac to increase the size of the plot and he was amazed at how well its done.</p><p></p><p>It's not an overnight process, but it certainly doesn't take a decade to build a nice layer of topsoil/ mulch.</p><p></p><p>Keep planting the new plots in the summer... it will pay off much faster than if you just plant fall plots.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5424826, member: 2805"] It's amazing how much topsoil you can produce in just a few years. My newest plot is only 2 years old. Bulldozed out the spot, never tilled it, just broadcast rye grass, turnips, and clover. 1000lbs pelletized lime and a couple bags triple 13. Rye grass did well, turnips and clover not so much. The following spring, I nuked the thick stand of ryegrass with gly, then drilled in sorgham, millet, and buckwheat. Added another 1000lbs lime and 2 more bags of fertilizer. It did great, tons of biomass and not much weed competition. Last fall I bushhogg3d the summer plot and drilled cereal rye, clover, and radishes plus another 100lbs fertilizer. They did great considering the browse pressure. Annual clover is still growing strong and has made it all the way through to this fall due to the thick layer of mulch/ topsoil I've produced retaining moisture. A few weeds ( mostly marestail) here and there. No need for herbicides, just clipped the marestail just above the clover, then drilled straight through the annual clover with wheat, radishes, and more clover. Another 1000lbs lime, no fertilizer yet. They fellow that dozed in the plot came back out last week to push out another .2ac to increase the size of the plot and he was amazed at how well its done. It's not an overnight process, but it certainly doesn't take a decade to build a nice layer of topsoil/ mulch. Keep planting the new plots in the summer... it will pay off much faster than if you just plant fall plots. [/QUOTE]
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