ORIGINAL: gregrn43
If you ask 10 different people you will probably get 10 different answers, but here is how I do it. Spray my herbicide to kill the weeds and junk out of it. Wait about 2 weeks thenspread my lime and work it into the soil. Wait a couple more weeks or so and if I need to spray herbicide I do it again. In the fall I plant some type of cereal grain with clover and rape, so I put out about 200lbs per acre of triple 13 at the time of planting. Later once I get a good stand going I spread about 150lbs of urea on it. This works really well for me in the soil where I plant my plots. My plots are always lush and green by mid oct if we get the rainfall here.
Thanks for the info! But urea isn't needed for what I'm doing. First, I'm planting legumes and second, my soil test didn't recommend any kind of nitrogen application. All I'm concerned with offering the plot for fertilizer is P and K. I just don't know what the best way to apply it is and when.