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Commercial Fertilize, Lime, or Chicken Litter???
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1249195" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Any nitrogen fertilizer either commercial or manure drives down your pH. The ammionum (NH4) is converted by the mircos in the soil into nitrate (NO3) which is the form of nitrogen the plants take up. That process leaves behind those 4 molecules of hydrogen in the soil. And hydrogen is what makes an acid soil. Layer litter has enough calcium to counteract this and actually even very slowly raise the pH. The other forms of manure are pretty close to a wash depending on how much Calcium they contain. </p><p>Applying lime and a nitrogen fertilizer at the same time will pretty much guarantee a chemical reaction that will cause the nitrogen to volatize off into the atmosphere. Nitrogen is too expensive and hard enough to keep where you put it to add an additional way for it to leave. I would never apply lime and a nitrogen fertilizer on at the same time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1249195, member: 498"] Any nitrogen fertilizer either commercial or manure drives down your pH. The ammionum (NH4) is converted by the mircos in the soil into nitrate (NO3) which is the form of nitrogen the plants take up. That process leaves behind those 4 molecules of hydrogen in the soil. And hydrogen is what makes an acid soil. Layer litter has enough calcium to counteract this and actually even very slowly raise the pH. The other forms of manure are pretty close to a wash depending on how much Calcium they contain. Applying lime and a nitrogen fertilizer at the same time will pretty much guarantee a chemical reaction that will cause the nitrogen to volatize off into the atmosphere. Nitrogen is too expensive and hard enough to keep where you put it to add an additional way for it to leave. I would never apply lime and a nitrogen fertilizer on at the same time. [/QUOTE]
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