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Sunday, October 10, 2010
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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then the deep spading will be done next week after the shredded leaves are incorporated to break the hard pan 18" deep, to aerate and lift the soil creating some more air pockets to help the leaves break down faster. this is a pic of the deepspader from last year. i will pay my friend gabe 200 bucks to break his back for 8 hours and deep spade every foot of the entire patch. his 26 year old back is much more suitable for the job than mine. lol. this is not your typical broadfork georgie boy. i am sure you would still do this yourself, but after 30 minutes of deepspading you would have one of your laborers on the job all of a sudden for sure. dan flangan, the mcee at our weigh off, said it looked easy last year. then he tried it and changed his tune big time. lol. and anyways, 100 bucks of the 200 came from your pocket for that bet we made. nice!. lol. this deep spader weighs officially 32 pounds and is a lot harder to remove out of the ground again and again more than anything in the process. if i had a small tractor and subsoiler, that would be great. but instead i have gabe. he is a my mule. lol. after that the 25 lbs of cover crop seeds (75% rye/25% hairy vetch) will go down and then one quart of aerify plus will be sprayed on each 777 sg ft spot and then watered in for 8 hours with my 6' tall rain tower sprinkler. i want that aerify plus soil loosener and kelp and molasses and humic acid as deep as they can go and also coating the shredded leaves in the soil to help feed the microorganisms and activate the system a bit. i went heavier on cover crop seeds with 25 lbs just to give a better chance in filling in the gaps that i had in some places last year and due to the later application in the fall.
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