| Show I Organic Matter Vital To Soil Building Plan Legumes and Grasses Are Recommended for Plan Feed the soil so It can feed the growing if you want to get high yields per advises J. B. Purdue University Peterson says the best way to tell what your needs Is to study the its management Its past cropping program and then have the soil The soil tests will tell what fertilizer is I 1 I TM WILL I MaKE OIL I needed and how much is required to keep the soil well stocked with a well-balanced nutrient But Peterson points out that and soil structure must be good if the plant food is to do its crop nourishing Crops can starve in the midst plenty and fertilizer can be wasted if the soil's structure is Poor soil structure shuts off drainage and It keeps air and water Crop roots can't penetrate the tightly-compacted soil to reach needed Peterson says the best way to correct soil compaction and repair damaged structure is to add organic This can be done by Including well-fertilized legumes and grasses regularly In the rotation and by returning manure and crop residues to the Legumes and grasses do a two-way soil building The deep-probing taproots of alfalfa and sweet clover do their soil-mellowing work In the heavy Fibrous-rooted grasses such as brome or timothy open up tough surface soils and make them granular and |
