Re: Best way to improve my sandy soil -Kinda long

Posted by David in England on June 16, 2006 at 15:51:03 from (81.158.60.145):

In Reply to: Best way to improve my sandy soil -Kinda long posted by Dave from MN on June 16, 2006 at 15:20:51:

Hi, several years ago I sold grass seed for a Seed Company to agricultural merchants and custom mixed grass seed mixtures to suit individual farms. A very successful farmer near here who grows grain and big crops of potatoes wanted to improve his very light sandy soil to give it some "body" and add humus.
We sold him a mixture of 22 Pounds COCKSFOOT + 2 Pounds WHITE CLOVER.
The Cocksfoot is a corse grass (tufty and unpalletable when it grows long) but puts dowm roots 2 feet deep in 1 year. The Clover adds nitrogen to the soil.
He cut the mixture 2 or 3 times a year when it was short & still paletable for silage. Then Left the grass to grow long and chopped it, plowed it in for mulch ready for next crop in rotation.
If you need the botanical name for Cocksfoot email me and I will look it up for you.
Regards David

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