Liquid Lime/Calcium Anybody tried it?

[Lineman North Florida]

That's good to hear. I didn't think it would make much of a difference. Even if you have to apply it every year, it would be worth the investment.

What type of grass is the hay? Looks like it might be Coastal Bermuda???

It is Coastal Bermuda, the Alicia variety, one of my neighbors sprigged some Jiggs variety and it has come on as well. I have also been experimenting with a couple of different types of hybrid bahaia , one is Tif-Quick developed by the University of Georgia and the other is Riatta developed by the University of Florida but I can't tell any difference between them at this time, both are about waist high.

 

[1 Old Man]

Lineman N. Fla. Thanks for keeping us posted. So wet here earlier this year it screwed up
everything. Early on a break in the rain let me spray for broad leaf weeds. Then MORE rain.
I ended up "topping" my grass, waiting, and finally cut/bale in August.
I'll try the calcium/liquid treatment again next season. I've been consistently getting
3+ per ac, 5 per ac sounds a lot better! Pic this year of getting hay ready to trailer out.

Question: I had a place several years ago that had bahia. That stuff was thick, stringy and
definitely had to slow a bit when cutting. Off topic, but let us know how the hybrids do.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Lineman N. Fla. Thanks for keeping us posted. So wet here earlier this year it screwed up
everything. Early on a break in the rain let me spray for broad leaf weeds. Then MORE rain.
I ended up "topping" my grass, waiting, and finally cut/bale in August.
I'll try the calcium/liquid treatment again next season. I've been consistently getting
3+ per ac, 5 per ac sounds a lot better! Pic this year of getting hay ready to trailer out.

Question: I had a place several years ago that had bahia. That stuff was thick, stringy and
definitely had to slow a bit when cutting. Off topic, but let us know how the hybrids do.

I can tell you this much about the hybrids , if there is a patch of Argentine bahaia in the same field with it, the cows will walk thru the Tif and Riatta to eat the Argentine but I have seen that with Pensacola and Argentine, these hybrids are unmatched on density and fast growth but preference wise the Argentine is still on top. One more positive on the Bahia is that army worms won't mess with it to much, they will get in it a little but nothing like Coastal Bermuda.

 

[Williy]

We haven't had any rain for quite a while the ground is so dry that when
you step you raise a fine cloud of dust and if you had polished shoes they
would be covered in dust! I tilled our garden and when I went to plant it
was full of grass, weeds almost 10 inches high we had a nice rain over a
month ago.. Now will have to figure out what I will use to kill all this green stuff. I tilled a 6 ft path where there was no grass and planted
potatoes and some corn. My first time planting as I did all the tilling and
helped my wife any way I could but she did all the planting I don't have a
green thumb. So I water every other day as temps here are over 100 deg
every day.
I was going to plant rye grass and then till it under for fertilizer would this
be a good or bad idea?

willy

 

[Lineman North Florida]

We haven't had any rain for quite a while the ground is so dry that when
you step you raise a fine cloud of dust and if you had polished shoes they
would be covered in dust! I tilled our garden and when I went to plant it
was full of grass, weeds almost 10 inches high we had a nice rain over a
month ago.. Now will have to figure out what I will use to kill all this green stuff. I tilled a 6 ft path where there was no grass and planted
potatoes and some corn. My first time planting as I did all the tilling and
helped my wife any way I could but she did all the planting I don't have a
green thumb. So I water every other day as temps here are over 100 deg
every day.
I was going to plant rye grass and then till it under for fertilizer would this
be a good or bad idea?

willy

For a small garden I believe I would just buy a couple of bags of granular fertilizer and side dress if possible if. not I would broadcast it.

 

[RayIN]

Without recent soil testing results, save your money.

 

[Kiwibru]

Forage tests before and after would help define success too. It is all about monitoring the nutrient cycle from soil to crop to manure (assuming livestock consumption), then manure and compost (if stock manure and winter bedding is collected and composted). Without any of this data management is a guessing game.