See if you can find a source of wood ashes. I get them from a wood fired generating plant about sixty miles away. What it costs me is basically the trucking and paperwork.
A ton of wood ash is equivalent to approximately half a ton of lime, but also contains from forty to eighty pounds of potash. So if you need a 2 tons of lime per acre, and substitute ashes at four tons/ acre, then you have also covered most of your potash requirement.
My supplier sends me a "nutrient value statement" each year for the ashes I have bought. Last year I paid a little over $400, and the calculated value was over $1200. I disagreed with the price of lime they used for the calculation, but even so I feel it was well worth the money.
Wood ash is quicker acting than lime, and you see results in a month instead of six, but it also runs out a little faster. I am trying to catch up top the point where I can put on a ton per acre every three years.
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