Is it possible to both lime a garden and put down green manure the same year? If so how long inbetween?
Is it possible to both lime a garden and put down green manure the same year? If so how long inbetween?
Bo McCarty, Realtor
Lime is not going to give immediate results. It's a long term process. So it should have little or no effect on your green manure crop. Look at lime application as a soil conditioner. It stabilizes some compounds and assists in releasing others, thus neutralizing your soil from an acetic condition.
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Get your soil tested by the local coop extension. They will tell you if you need lime based on soil pH. They even tell you how many # per 1,000 sq feet. They will also test for Potasium (K) and Phosphorus (P). Again with recommendations. The advice is crop specific, some like more acidic soil than others. It cost me $12 per sample at Umass which included an additional measure of organic material.
People lime over their lawn all the time, so I don't imagine it will affect your green manure.
Hazmat
Forgot to mention. I am planting new grass, no "waiting period" between liming & planting seed.
Hazmat
The folks at the milling company suggested wheat (I assume winter wheat). They said that's what all the gardeners around here use. It's seemed really cheap to at .25 per pound.
Bo McCarty, Realtor
I have the wheat growing all over the garden. So, what's next?
Bo McCarty, Realtor
There are some options.
If it is a hard wheat you can leave it till next year and turn it into bread.
Otherwise you may just till it under next spring.
Egon
Am I correct by saying you do not want to let it go to seed?
Yes, that is correct. you till it under when you plant your spring crop.
Egon
Ok. So it will not go to seed until next spring then. Makes sense. Thanks. When is too late to plant the winter wheat?
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