Fertilizer going ballistic

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Here are some links. We also use soybeans and other beans. Black locust, Buffalo berries and have tried and removed seaberries among others.

Understanding Plant Nutrition

Many orchardists gain skill when they gain insight into the plants we grow. When I was a much younger man growing hay I would sometimes cheat the hay and put 100 pounds of nitrogen on each acre if nitrogen fertilizer was expensive that year or 300 pounds if nitrogen fertilizer was cheaper that year. The Nitrogen cycle is complexed but the most important thing to know is plants are roughly 4 percent nitrogen. The atmosphere of the planet is 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen, 1% carbon dio…

Use lots of clover

Cover crop and mulch recommendations

I’d love to hear everyone’s recommendations for mulching and for cover crops for semi-dwarf apple trees. I’ve put down ramial wood chips around 24 trees in a diameter of about 4 feet, which are spaced 13 feet between trees and rows are 20 feet apart. Should we mulch completely between the trees? Or does it make sense to cover crop between the trees along with the rows in late summer? Thanks so much!

Autumn olives

Planning on a big autumn olive harvest

Thinking of juicing these berries! What are your thoughts? I have a lot of these bushes! They were sold to me as Goumi but I guess I don’t mind since they produce fruit. [image] [image] [image] [image]