Leo Scheibelhut share some additional thoughts on pay back bad soil with “ cervid food plot ” style seeding :
“ I ’m a former grazing dairy farm farmer and former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines . I have faced cogon grass in the Philippines , did n’t realize it was here in America in the South . The only constituent control for cogon that I know of is to fence in pig or chickens over it and fertilize them food grain , etc . so they run through every tiny blade of cogon as it comes up during the brief menses while it is still tender .
As a instructor in Japan , I brought life to some prolific volcanic sandy grease that was completely compacted and sterile . It had been removed as spoiling from the twist of the founding for the humble apartment edifice I last in and mashed down by the builder ’ equipment . I dug hole and planted prime , pepper and tomato plant plants , then spot mulched with all my veg barren [ carrot peelings , onion skins , peppercorn seed and whites , citrous fruit skin , etc . and the occasional bag of yard clippings from the neighbor ’s house stolen out of the trash . ] plant daikon radish and leave it to rot really helped break up the compacted soil . After two years I had a fine productive garden .
As a dairy farm sodbuster , I had outstanding winner with rye and haired vetch for early grazing every year . After grazing the Secale cereale and vetch out , I ’d implant a summer skimming harvest , sometimes a complex mix of millet , sudan grass , turnips , and grazing soybeans[hay beans ] but often just grazing corn . I used the recommended fertilizer on the summertime crop but none on the rye / vetch crop . I call back that graze the fleeceable manure crop out is easier and better for the soil if you have enough creature to do it . Their manure adds biolife to the soil .
In your extremely poor stain I ’d go heavy on rye , hirsute vetch , daikon radish , turnip over the winter , then fecundate with treble 13 for a summer harvest of sudan grass , millet , buckwheat , one or more summer edible bean , and whatever summer genus Brassica do well and steady down deeply in your area .
PROTIP : provender stores and caryopsis mills often have old unsold bags of some crop semen they are uncoerced to sell cheap to get rid off . Those make cheap green manure . Untreated seeds are best and I ’d never use any that were treated with any mercury or hydrargyrum compound .
I think artificial fertilizers are a all sane fashion to leap pop out some green outgrowth in the beginning . I agree that vegetables grow with hokey fertilizers miss the flavour and health of organic .
Btw , I enjoy your channel because while I know a lot about grazing and a bit about repairing soils , I learn raw thing in every TV especially about grow vegetables . give thanks you so much . ”
dozens of good info in here – give thanks you , Leo .
His comment was posted below this video :
The Brassica rapa piece that I show in this television is looking much worse now as the winter unfold on . The soil is so poor that now that the 13 - 13 - 13 has washed through , the flora are looking browned and yellow around the edges and seemed to have discontinue growing . hirsute vetch would be a very beneficial accession – I think they demand that surplus nitrogen .
It ’s sad when even turnips do n’t like to get because the soil is so terrible .
However , that area is now a dumping ground for pile and piles of tree limb , which we hope to use to help fix the footing .
I do bid we could fence the arena , plant it with cover crops , then mob graze some kine through it . We may just locate for chickens alternatively . And some Goat . Or perhaps the biochar , ash and some cover crops will be enough to kick the sphere into production .
We shall see .
