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| This is something I've been struggling with for a while. I have a piece of rental ground that is marginal poorly drained sandy soil with a pH of 5.2-5.6 and a buffer pH of 6.8. The land owner is in their 80s and will only sign a one year agreement every year. If the owner wasn't a long time friend of the family I would have ditched it years ago. I don't want to spend the money on lime to have the old lady pass soon after application so the past few years I've been putting on 200lbs pell-lime in the spring with my fertilizer. Broadcast for beans, 2x2 with corn. The first year I did it there was a noticeable difference but I don't know if I am throwing my money away on the pell-lime or should I bite it and broadcast some beet lime. Currently the family is talking about putting the old lady that owns it in a rest home, as soon as that happens I know I won't be farming it. It's a tough call but so far I think that's the only use for pell-lime I've found. | |
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200 lbs of pelletized lime = >½-1 T of Ag lime. revisited
