Wingnut
Veteran Member
Hey, way to go, Muhammad ... new site looks great!
Since nobodies responded yet ... I thought I'd back to the old site, copy this and ressurect it here ... 'course I'll be more patient this time - as I have to zip over to Europe for 10 days ... hopefully SOMEONE will have some clues for me when I get back.
OK, what I said ...
ok ... now that we've exhausted the 3 dog night stuff ... I could use some conversation on 4 horse days. Especially on 4 miniature horse days (no, not the days, the horses). When we moved to Michigan 2 years ago, I found this 8 acre place close to work ... and it had several fenced pastures, a corral and a barn ... so I gave my wife those minis she'd always wanted.
Anyway ... this is about the pasture ... not really the horses. The cluck that built this place had been farming but decided to retire and use the back lot as a RV storage place. So he made some money selling off the topsoil ... and then changed his mind. So ... I find this out by stumbling over drainage tube out there (I'm the third owner, previous paid scant attention to the pasture) and asking questions. Last year prompted me to finally get a new tractor to (as a start) cut down the weeds - including a fantastic crop of 7 ft high sweet clover.
I've already tilled the first (worst) 3 acre pasture and it looks like mostly sandy soil with some clay and none of the black dirt I'm used to.
OK ... finally, the question. Besides seeding it with high nitrogen stuff like grass and clover that won't adversely affect the horses ... and besides shredding and spreading the manure out there ... what can I do to make the soil properly arable??
too bad that common sense ain't
Since nobodies responded yet ... I thought I'd back to the old site, copy this and ressurect it here ... 'course I'll be more patient this time - as I have to zip over to Europe for 10 days ... hopefully SOMEONE will have some clues for me when I get back.
OK, what I said ...
ok ... now that we've exhausted the 3 dog night stuff ... I could use some conversation on 4 horse days. Especially on 4 miniature horse days (no, not the days, the horses). When we moved to Michigan 2 years ago, I found this 8 acre place close to work ... and it had several fenced pastures, a corral and a barn ... so I gave my wife those minis she'd always wanted.
Anyway ... this is about the pasture ... not really the horses. The cluck that built this place had been farming but decided to retire and use the back lot as a RV storage place. So he made some money selling off the topsoil ... and then changed his mind. So ... I find this out by stumbling over drainage tube out there (I'm the third owner, previous paid scant attention to the pasture) and asking questions. Last year prompted me to finally get a new tractor to (as a start) cut down the weeds - including a fantastic crop of 7 ft high sweet clover.
I've already tilled the first (worst) 3 acre pasture and it looks like mostly sandy soil with some clay and none of the black dirt I'm used to.
OK ... finally, the question. Besides seeding it with high nitrogen stuff like grass and clover that won't adversely affect the horses ... and besides shredding and spreading the manure out there ... what can I do to make the soil properly arable??
too bad that common sense ain't