Jogeephus
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I think you are right in your thinking. I'd also watch the tests closely for a while because I found that I was using up potassium faster than what the soil test told me I should so I ended up increasing the potash by 10% to hold it steady.
With your addition of the clover I think you will see soon begin to see a layer of organic matter building up between the mother plants in the T85. This layer appears thin during the winter months but during the warm months it seems to grow. My layer is now around three inches thick during the summer and is as rich as potting soil. My hope is that this layer will continue to grow and fill in the 18" plow layer and will increase the buffer of the soil.
I've also done the same by planning sacrifice areas for hay feeding. I did this by fencing off a ten acre area that contained my poorest most sandy soil and fed hay there for several years. This soil is no longer a sandy loam but a loamy sand and is extremely stable and fertile. I plan on fencing off another sacrifice area and repeating. The benefit of this is I haven't added anything to this acreage in 15 years and its producing a lot of forage with no inputs and as long as I don't cut hay on it and I only graze it the soil tests show it is remaining stable and all the nitrogen it gets is coming from the clovers (crimson and dutch white) and rainfall.
With your addition of the clover I think you will see soon begin to see a layer of organic matter building up between the mother plants in the T85. This layer appears thin during the winter months but during the warm months it seems to grow. My layer is now around three inches thick during the summer and is as rich as potting soil. My hope is that this layer will continue to grow and fill in the 18" plow layer and will increase the buffer of the soil.
I've also done the same by planning sacrifice areas for hay feeding. I did this by fencing off a ten acre area that contained my poorest most sandy soil and fed hay there for several years. This soil is no longer a sandy loam but a loamy sand and is extremely stable and fertile. I plan on fencing off another sacrifice area and repeating. The benefit of this is I haven't added anything to this acreage in 15 years and its producing a lot of forage with no inputs and as long as I don't cut hay on it and I only graze it the soil tests show it is remaining stable and all the nitrogen it gets is coming from the clovers (crimson and dutch white) and rainfall.