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Sunday, December 23, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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I have done a fairly good job of spreading hay. I'm close to ready for next year. I know most growers use rye but I get such heavy rain and cooler temperatures being more in the mountains here. A weak cover crop is not enough to protect the ground. The soil texture is really great here but not when the rain pounds the soil to death. I should try a mix of rye and straw but basically I can't use just rye because it doesn't sufficiently protect the soil. I need to improve the tilth and that means I can't have four feet of rain land on my soil. The way it works around here is... After four or five feet of rain land on bare soil, you end up with dead soil... no tilth. And missing nutrients.
I will burn the excess hay off in March or April. And fertilize then! It is pointless to fertilize now with anything soluble with three more feet of rain on the way. I will have to do some research to figure out if some cheap phosphorous would be better applied now though... due to low solubility.
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