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Sun, Jan 1, 12 at 12:27
| If you were going to apply a calcium material, sulphate or carbonate, onto a well established grass sod, and you were also planning to have it plowed soon with a turning plow, would you apply first so the material ended up 6-8 inches down or would you apply afterwards, and why? |
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- Posted by marshallz10 z9-10 CA (My Page) on Sun, Jan 1, 12 at 13:53
| Spread over the sod and turned under. The decomposition of the sod will be accelerated by the enriched environment. Future crops will root into the zone where these nutrient wells exist. This is especially true with phosphorus sources, materials made more readily available by microbial activity. |
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| Grassy sod crops probably should be mowed down short before plowing so that more shallow plowing will kill the sod and the materials are not buried deeply. |
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| I was kind of leaning towards applying the calcium first also. Thanks for the responses. |
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| Applying first is the way we did it when spreading manure on the farm. But we mostly dick to 6 inches in the Fall. We disk & turn in early Spring to get 8-12 inches deep, before planting. |
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