Posted by paul on July 14, 2016 at 10:12:55 from (66.60.214.108):
In Reply to: Worn out soil posted by Danny Prosser on July 14, 2016 at 09:55:59:
Stuff like straw, hulls, tree leaves, etc are organic matter.
But they don't contain much nutrition. They will use up a years worth of nitrogen to break themselves down into humus and stuff. (Look up carbon to nitrogen ratios.....) so your grass plants will be starving for N.
Fresh manure would be better.
Getting the hulls, and a load of manure, and mixing in a pile and let it compost for a year, would be -really- good. The carbon from the hulls and the N from the manure would make a really rich ready to go product for you.
Your mowing and letting the clippings die and decompose is probably doing as much as bringing in the hulls would do? Feeding the grass you have growing N,P, and K along with small amounts of sulfur, boron, and zinc would probably grow you more organic matter faster than the hulls would provide any? Comnercial fertilizer or manure can be used.
Rebuilding top soil is a long deal, it depends where you want to get to and how fast you want to get there. Tillage in the south tends to break down organic matter faster than you can haul it in, so if you spread hulls, and make 5 passes working it on, in 3 years your soil might be poorer than letting things grow and list go with the clippings? Its about how the carbon gets 'burned out of' the soil as you stir it.
I should note as a Minnesota resident I'm not familiar with cotton seed hulls, so I might not understand what they offer for soil building, if someone else has a better idea. Up here with our long cold winters our organic matter does not disappear very fast, so we can be much more agressive with tillage, and so forth.
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