Bly om te sien oom probeer net so hard leer soos ek. Jurie

You are right in your comment. Municipal watering systems add nutrients with a high nitrogen and phosphorous content because they support plant growth and it is necessary. But if you find a natural source and supply that helps the soil and its pH to move towards a natural ecological balance, then you do not need to apply bicarbonate regularly. That nature-based material exists.

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very high K in your field and may be displacing the calcium. what is your pH? K is 2 times more effective in raising pH than calcium. magnesium, 1.6 times more than calcium. sodium, 4 times more. in the end though, tis not the pH. tis the ratio of minerals to each other. in the Albrecht system, K should occupy only 2-5% of base saturation. Glen's company has 2 calcium products with different functions - one to sort of break up tightness of soils mostly due to high magnesium and the other for the present calcium needs of the plant...blessings

Thanks for the feedback Paul. Our pH is around 6-6.5. which is not too bad I would have thought. We haven't kept it up in recent years but we did a lot of liming here in the name of Albrecht but could still never get that K to budge. We don't have K in our fert anymore, but it's still crazy high everywhere we go. I am curious if we need more exchangeable hydrogen to kick the calcium off the carbonate to get some action perhaps. Despite all the liming we still see a lot of weeds and disease etc. It's a real head scratcher

@@grahamstevenson6417 wow! what a curious state of soil! tested with a penetrometer? you don't have to have one. just any steel rod will do - if it slides down easy or resists and would not go in except for forceful push down. how's the biology of your soil? microbes i mean. have you tried to push the microbial function with perhaps the Johnson-Su compost extract. Glen mentions their calcium product which aerates the soil a pound of which covers acres - i forget the rate. could help but of course do this after you have considered all the factors...

Thanks Paul. I am trying to get a hold of one to have another look. Typically the tilled cropping paddocks with stay loose enough for the season, down to the plow layer at least. But these will crust immediately after rain. Will see some holes from biology during the fall winter months, but as soon as the sun comes out in spring they run away. Pastures will ultimately settle and hardset like concrete ( which is a potassium thing I believe) after a couple of years. The loamy hard setting nature of these soil mean they tend not to swell and crack like clays do I guess. I gather the air would soon be mostly cut off. Gave "EM" microbes a go for 6 years , but nothing. From watching Glen's video's I now understand our 8-10:1 C:N ratio is not helping there. Wish I knew that gem earlier. Would love to try some of Glen's brews, but not sure they have then here in Australia. Glen maybe may enjoy a trip to Australia for a look? I'll put the kettle on hey? Really appreciate the feedback Paul 👍. I hope you are kicking goals with it all.

@@grahamstevenson6417 👌may your effort bear fruit. find Bryan Mcleod here in youtube - Soil Mineral Balancing, guest in a video by Soil Learning Center. expert from New Zealand, been all over the world, i believe even here in the Philippines. decades of experience which one may need with your mind-bender. he has a consulting firm - proag consulting...blessings😇

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Blueberries do like a lower pH soil.

@@SoilWorksLLC-GSRCalcium too bad, my PH is 6.5. I would love to grow them, but I am not keen to use peat, sulfur, or sulfate fertilizers to lover my PH.

​@@blagoeresComposted Oak and pine leaves and a lot of them. It is how wild blueberries or huckleberries grow in non peat bog areas. What is your beef with sulfur? You can research on youtube how to make fertilizers from fermented grass.

@@frankenz66 we use sulfur as a fungicide on grapevines. So my guess is that it will damage fungi in the soil also.

​@@blagoeres we grow blueberries in 7pH soil, zero chemicals, old depleted reclaimed farm plot. We get a good yeild.

Work on increasing soluble carbon in your soils. The soluble carbon will stimulate the soil microbiology and help increase nutrient cycling within the soil.

Would stripper front and no till disc seeding and full stubble retention gain us soluble carbon ? We are currently heading down that path

Florida panhandle or Oklahoma panhandle...?🤔

@@warriorson7979 Flawda lol

@@mirandaaldrich9616 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_panhandle

Do you work for free?

My first time watching too BUT, his math us correct. Sry there is no 'just tell me what to do!' Soil is complex and diverse. But micro orgs are the foundation.

Why so?