Dealing with hard clay soils can often be done via roots in the ground but often there are situations where a mechanical or nutrient treatment are needed as well. Poor draining soils can cause low PH and also result in compaction layers.
Take that Heavy Chevy down to Watkinsville and get a load of Buck Forage Oats and broadcast on this dirt right before the next rain. The deer will love it!
On my families farm we called that a deep breaker. Probably not the technical term but you understand its meaning. Lol! Looking good Doc. I cant wait to see it in the coming weeks.
I wish our soil around Chattanooga was that good. Around here you couldn’t pull a subsoiler through the ground with a D-8 dozer, if you could you would pull up rocks the size of beach balls or bigger. My ex-father-in-law was a farmer in Michigan and he used one from time to time. He used his to pull underground wire and water lines in without trenching too.
Good call on using the subsoiler. You have to be careful doing any deep tillage where you turn the soil over, because you run the risk of bringing up clay. From what I can tell this will leave that clay down deep and allow nutrients and O2 to penetrate deep, deflocculating your top 12 inches of soil. Should see great results.
I got one of those from tractor supply and my L2501 folded it backwards like a pretzel I was so disappointed they would not give me a new one they said it was my fault
nice fence. do you find yourself needing a heavier sub soiler with a sheer pin? I was planning on a everything attachments sub soiler but they went belly up a few months back. my tractor is the same size as the Deere you are using.
I saw you treating your field for fireants and remembered something a lady told me at Lowe's one time. She said that if you take the top of one fire ant mound and swap it with the top of another mound the ants would kill each other out because they're very territorial. I've never tried it because I don't have an issue with ants at my new place but I'm still curious if it would work for you. It would be safer for the deer since you wouldn't have to drop poison near where they eat (no judgement though, I use chemicals on my acre). Good luck either way!
The very small amount we apply on 40 acres has little to no impact on the wildlife. That advice from the lady was wrong FYI. Here's a good read. www.amdro.com/learn/fire-ants/why-home-remedies-for-fire-ants-dont-work-and-what-does
