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Andre Antunes replied to the discussion SAP analysis on tomatoes in the forum Vegetables 2 years ago
Reply to SAP analysis on tomatoes
I would continue applying sulphur at small quantities each time – not more than 30kg /ha if possible together with generous organic matter (ideally not manure based) which you also need. For a clay soil 3,6% OM is not a lot to estabilize the argilo-humic complex. Your TEC is low for the type of soil and organic matter content. That might mean…
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Johannes Meier replied to the discussion Slater overpopulation in the forum Cover Crops 2 years ago
Reply to Slater overpopulation
Thanks Rowan and Christopher
I’ve come to a similar conclusion. Recently I visited a farm down near Canberra. Going through a paddock, the farmer showed me how his perrenial grass plants were being wiped out by slaters. Same sort of problem. He has layer chickens out eating the slaters. This afternoon I was out in the same paddocks that…
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Mirko Schuster started the discussion Silicon as one of the importent nutition for tree healthy and high quality fruit in the forum Regenerative Agriculture 2 years ago
Silicon as one of the importent nutition for tree healthy and high quality fruit
Three years ago, I started with regenerative agriculture in cherry breeding at our institute. We have canceled all teatments of pesticides and herbicides in our cherry orchards. Only in our breeding clone trails we have spayed two time before the ripening time insecticides against Cherry fruit fly and Drosophila suzukii. We have a special…
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Carlton Moore started the discussion Introduction? in the forum Soil Health 2 years ago
I don’t know where else to introduce myself and since I’m very passionate about soil health, I guess I’ll do it here. If a mod or admin thinks it should go elsewhere, feel free to move it.
See my profile for basic background and here’s a taste of what I’m working on currently and coming up:
Cheers all!
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Scott Maricle replied to the discussion SAP analysis on tomatoes in the forum Vegetables 2 years ago
Reply to SAP analysis on tomatoes
I have used it enough to know what my soil seems to always come up short on. I highly recommend doing saps at least three times on the same crop. Once when they are first flowering, once when they have a some green fruit and once when they are heavy with fruit. What I found out is that really get hungry for almost all of the trace elements…
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