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Old April 17, 2019   #9
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How deep did you plant the seeds? Just wondering.

We have your storm/rain coming tomorrow so I side dressed today at the v5 stage. If it rains buckets I won't be able to work the soil so I jumped the gun.

After I finished I did a little research about corn root growth and I might've hurt the plants roots by trenching too close to the plants but they're all still standing happy after a few hours so hopefully the deep planting made up for my eagerness. I only trenched about 2" deep pushing the soil away from the plant and then came back and pushed the soil to the plant to cover the urea.

I used the antique push plow to make a tench on both sides of the plants about 4-6" from them and dropped 25 lbs of urea(46-0-0). The soil wasn't compacted so the push plow made this the easiest and fastest way to get it done.




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