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adding Lime #3710521 07/18/22 02:09 PM 07/18/22 02:09 PM
Joined: Sep 2016 Posts: 8,028 Alabama Shaneomac2 OP 14 point
Shaneomac2 OP 14 point Joined: Sep 2016 Posts: 8,028 Alabama	Is there better times of the year to add lime to your plots? I have a few small plots and was wondering after i bush hogged could i spread lime then plant right after? Georgia Football..Acts like Bama but has a trophy case like South Carolina.

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3710539 07/18/22 02:30 PM 07/18/22 02:30 PM
Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 2,902 Ozark , Alabama B BradB 10 point
BradB 10 point B Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 2,902 Ozark , Alabama	Any time is good for lime. Works slow and works best when incorporated into the soil. It will be many months before any real benefit with ag lime, faster with pellet.

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3710591 07/18/22 04:10 PM 07/18/22 04:10 PM
Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 8,436 Chelsea L Lockjaw 14 point
Lockjaw 14 point L Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 8,436 Chelsea	I saw better production last fall, than the fall prior which is when I put out ag lime. If you can add it then add it.

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3710612 07/18/22 04:58 PM 07/18/22 04:58 PM
Joined: May 2020 Posts: 818 Middle Alabama S Stoney 6 point
Stoney 6 point S Joined: May 2020 Posts: 818 Middle Alabama	Ag lime is by far the best cost and does a great job for at least 3 to 4 yrs if you put enough down. It takes Ag lime awhile to break down. I always put it down in the spring and it is ready by fall and again last for several years. Pellet lime is easier and a lot cheaper and if disk ed in can be put down in the fall. It only last for a year or two most times. Ag is better and cheaper, pellet is more costly and last not as long. Sometimes it depends on the equipment you have to put it out.

Re: adding Lime [Re: Stoney] #3710703 07/18/22 08:11 PM 07/18/22 08:11 PM
Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 14,623 Clanton Turkey_neck Booner
Turkey_neck Booner Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 14,623 Clanton	Originally Posted by Stoney Ag lime is by far the best cost and does a great job for at least 3 to 4 yrs if you put enough down. It takes Ag lime awhile to break down. I always put it down in the spring and it is ready by fall and again last for several years. Pellet lime is easier and a lot cheaper and if disk ed in can be put down in the fall. It only last for a year or two most times. Ag is better and cheaper, pellet is more costly and last not as long. Sometimes it depends on the equipment you have to put it out. How is one better then the other? I ask because they are the same thing. One has a substance added to make small pellets the other is plain powder. Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!

Re: adding Lime [Re: Turkey_neck] #3710786 07/18/22 10:30 PM 07/18/22 10:30 PM
Joined: Nov 2014 Posts: 4,161 chilton, co. hayman 10 point
hayman 10 point Joined: Nov 2014 Posts: 4,161 chilton, co.	Originally Posted by Turkey_neck Originally Posted by Stoney Ag lime is by far the best cost and does a great job for at least 3 to 4 yrs if you put enough down. It takes Ag lime awhile to break down. I always put it down in the spring and it is ready by fall and again last for several years. Pellet lime is easier and a lot cheaper and if disk ed in can be put down in the fall. It only last for a year or two most times. Ag is better and cheaper, pellet is more costly and last not as long. Sometimes it depends on the equipment you have to put it out. How is one better then the other? I ask because they are the same thing. One has a substance added to make small pellets the other is plain powder. One cost way more than the other. “Everything Woke Turns To SH_T” Donald J. Trump

Re: adding Lime [Re: hayman] #3710835 07/19/22 06:47 AM 07/19/22 06:47 AM
Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 14,623 Clanton Turkey_neck Booner
Turkey_neck Booner Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 14,623 Clanton	Originally Posted by hayman Originally Posted by Turkey_neck Originally Posted by Stoney Ag lime is by far the best cost and does a great job for at least 3 to 4 yrs if you put enough down. It takes Ag lime awhile to break down. I always put it down in the spring and it is ready by fall and again last for several years. Pellet lime is easier and a lot cheaper and if disk ed in can be put down in the fall. It only last for a year or two most times. Ag is better and cheaper, pellet is more costly and last not as long. Sometimes it depends on the equipment you have to put it out. How is one better then the other? I ask because they are the same thing. One has a substance added to make small pellets the other is plain powder. One cost way more than the other. Well if someone would bring their lime truck to the house I’d find that out. 😁 Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3710878 07/19/22 08:12 AM 07/19/22 08:12 AM
Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 8,436 Chelsea L Lockjaw 14 point
Lockjaw 14 point L Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 8,436 Chelsea	in 2020 I spent $491.22 on ag lime, and the scales say I got 24 tons. I spent another $182 on a 2 ton dump trailer rental. At $4/bag, that would only be 6,850 pounds of pellet lime. 24 tons of ag lime isn't a whole lot when you start spreading it. When I have put out pellet lime, even with a 3pt spreader, it takes a while. I want to buy an ag lime spreader. But I don't have room in my garage for any more equipment. My soil tests called for 2 to 2.5 tons of ag lime per acre. I misjudged my field sizes and probably didn't need 24 tons, but, they have lime. I am going to soil test again next spring.

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3710882 07/19/22 08:19 AM 07/19/22 08:19 AM
Joined: Sep 2016 Posts: 8,028 Alabama Shaneomac2 OP 14 point
Shaneomac2 OP 14 point Joined: Sep 2016 Posts: 8,028 Alabama	Oh wow. 2-2.5 an acre seems like alot. I need to get my soil tests in and go from there i reckon. Georgia Football..Acts like Bama but has a trophy case like South Carolina.

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3710889 07/19/22 08:28 AM 07/19/22 08:28 AM
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 6,632 Moulton,AL Snuffy 14 point
Snuffy 14 point Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 6,632 Moulton,AL	If u you ou have Sandy soil it will always call for more lime. It’s not unusual for Sandy soul PH to be in the 4.0’s. You use what you can get Ag lime is getting harder to come by. If you always do what you've always done you always get what you've always got

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3710948 07/19/22 10:13 AM 07/19/22 10:13 AM
Joined: May 2020 Posts: 818 Middle Alabama S Stoney 6 point
Stoney 6 point S Joined: May 2020 Posts: 818 Middle Alabama	I rented a large spreader [ held 5 tons at a time from a Co=Op and bought 24 tons of lime from them which they brought to my club and dumped for me. Then I used a front end loader on a tractor to load the spreader and then connected tractor to the spreader and went to fields. We put out about 1.5 tons per acre. Repeated this time after time until we got all green fields covered. Had about 3 tons left which we covered and used a little at a time later. Never found any Co-Op or seed and feed store that would come on hunting club land and spread it. Was grateful to find someone to deliver it to us and rent us the spreader.

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3711145 07/19/22 03:17 PM 07/19/22 03:17 PM
Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 8,436 Chelsea L Lockjaw 14 point
Lockjaw 14 point L Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 8,436 Chelsea	Originally Posted by Shaneomac2 Oh wow. 2-2.5 an acre seems like alot. I need to get my soil tests in and go from there i reckon. All my plots I tested were 4.5 to 5.4 in PH. At that low, fertilizer is a waste of money. The 5.4 one I had put liquid lime on, which is probably why it was that high. It called for 1.5 tons per acre. All the other fields were 2 to 2.5 tons per acre. I rented a 2 ton dump trailer and a couple scoops was 2 tons. Thankfully the quarry was about 9 miles away from my club, but you definitely want a 4wd truck, I made my first field drop fine, drop number 2, stuck. Drove 2 wd tundra home and got the 4wd one, and no problems. I would also say don't go to the quarry when its raining either. Wet ag lime is slick!!

Re: adding Lime [Re: Lockjaw] #3711146 07/19/22 03:18 PM 07/19/22 03:18 PM
Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 8,436 Chelsea L Lockjaw 14 point
Lockjaw 14 point L Joined: Jul 2020 Posts: 8,436 Chelsea	Originally Posted by Lockjaw Originally Posted by Shaneomac2 Oh wow. 2-2.5 an acre seems like alot. I need to get my soil tests in and go from there i reckon. All my plots I tested were 4.5 to 5.4 in PH. At that low, fertilizer is a waste of money. The 5.4 one I had put liquid lime on, which is probably why it was that high. It called for 1.5 tons per acre. All the other fields were 2 to 2.5 tons per acre. I rented a 2 ton dump trailer and a couple scoops was 2 tons. Thankfully the quarry was about 9 miles away from my club, but you definitely want a 4wd truck, I made my first field drop fine, drop number 2, stuck. Drove 2 wd tundra home and got the 4wd one, and no problems. I think their scale was off too, because they had my tare weight at over 7K pounds, for the double cab tundra, but only 5.5K for the access cab. One load I hauled out was 15K pounds total weight. I would also say don't go to the quarry when its raining either. Wet ag lime is slick!!

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3711471 07/20/22 12:02 AM 07/20/22 12:02 AM
Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 1,912 Madison R redgineer 8 point
redgineer 8 point R Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 1,912 Madison	Anybody ever use hardwood ash? I've been thinking about adding lime like a poor lol. Last edited by redgineer; 07/20/22 12:03 AM.

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3711473 07/20/22 12:17 AM 07/20/22 12:17 AM
Joined: Aug 2016 Posts: 2,448 AL, Wetumpka J jake5050 10 point
jake5050 10 point J Joined: Aug 2016 Posts: 2,448 AL, Wetumpka	I just put out 73 or 74 bags of pelletized lime from Lowe's and it wasn't bad at all with my tractor spreader. Ask for the 70 because that's what a pallet comes in and chances are it will be more like what I got. I would put 9 to 10 40 pound bags in at a time and I think I was done in 1.5 hrs

Re: adding Lime [Re: redgineer] #3712096 07/20/22 08:24 PM 07/20/22 08:24 PM
Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 22,169 blount county alabama jwalker77 Pumpkin
jwalker77 Pumpkin Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 22,169 blount county alabama	Originally Posted by redgineer Anybody ever use hardwood ash? I've been thinking about adding lime like a poor lol. Lime is about $35/ton. Even poor kids can afford that

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3712161 07/20/22 09:55 PM 07/20/22 09:55 PM
Joined: Mar 2015 Posts: 4,499 george county ms johndeere5036 10 point
johndeere5036 10 point Joined: Mar 2015 Posts: 4,499 george county ms	I poured the lime to my fields last year and I was able to cut way back on fertilizer. I’m about to haul another dump truck load up and do it again.

Re: adding Lime [Re: jwalker77] #3712282 07/21/22 07:42 AM 07/21/22 07:42 AM
Joined: Sep 2016 Posts: 8,028 Alabama Shaneomac2 OP 14 point
Shaneomac2 OP 14 point Joined: Sep 2016 Posts: 8,028 Alabama	Originally Posted by jwalker77 Originally Posted by redgineer Anybody ever use hardwood ash? I've been thinking about adding lime like a poor lol. Lime is about $35/ton. Even poor kids can afford that 35 dollars a ton? Georgia Football..Acts like Bama but has a trophy case like South Carolina.

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3712458 07/21/22 11:43 AM 07/21/22 11:43 AM
Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 1,912 Madison R redgineer 8 point
redgineer 8 point R Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 1,912 Madison	Originally Posted by Shaneomac2 Originally Posted by jwalker77 Originally Posted by redgineer Anybody ever use hardwood ash? I've been thinking about adding lime like a poor lol. Lime is about $35/ton. Even poor kids can afford that 35 dollars a ton? I'm also trying to buy as little as possible to reduce my dependence on supply chains. I'll be out there this weekend burying trash fish for fertilizer lol. I'm not expecting much success this year, just hoping I learn enough to be better at it next year.

Re: adding Lime [Re: Shaneomac2] #3712512 07/21/22 01:08 PM 07/21/22 01:08 PM
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abolt300 Booner A Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 10,517	Originally Posted by Shaneomac2 Originally Posted by jwalker77 Originally Posted by redgineer Anybody ever use hardwood ash? I've been thinking about adding lime like a poor lol. Lime is about $35/ton. Even poor kids can afford that 35 dollars a ton? Plus whatever it costs to have it delivered to your property. Normally by a 20 yd tri-axle dump.

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