- Location
- Near Colchester
Is this a thing I should be doing to help the DD?
Gypsum on high Mag clay?
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d williams
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compost if you can get it but gypsum will help also
Put liquid gypsum in with whatever your putting on with the sprayer and it will help
Better job IMO than big spreaders putting powder on, and no spreading cost if you put it in the tank at the same time
Better job IMO than big spreaders putting powder on, and no spreading cost if you put it in the tank at the same time
- Location
- North yorks
Depends what you have available, liquid gypsum looks Expensive for the amount of product applied, I’ve had reasonable results with solid gypsum but spread it myself with muckspreaders and I have been able to get gypsum for the cost of local haulage.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Gypsum is ace. No idea on the DD side. Can't get any at an economical price at the moment.
- Location
- Near Colchester
I have a gypsum spreader (lime spreader) about the place but also endless FYM, do both if I can afford it?
- Location
- Darlington
Same here. Very happy with it.
- Location
- northampton
There is a limit on how much you can legally apply I think!
- Location
- northampton
2T/ha I think officially
Last August we paid £46 per 20 litre drum and used 14 litres per hectare on grass field before ploughing , done at the same time as burning of so no extra cost, think it was available in ibc's at about half the price per litre if you needed that much.
Well worth the investment
- Location
- Scotland
Where does gypsum come from that it's a waste material needing disposed of?
- Location
- northampton
Recycled plaster board
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Pretty much a waste of time rate. Ten times that, then you're cooking.
- Location
- North yorks
So for less than what you pay for a 20 ltr drum I can fill my 10 ton spreader, I know which will have more long term effect on the soil
I don't have a 10 ton spreader and would be relying on contractor to spread so the liquid suits us better,but applying gypsum in any form is well worth it
How does it fare if it's rained on when it's heaped waiting to be spread?
- Location
- North yorks
It forms a crust, couple of inches thick, still dry and dusty under the crust, crust breaks as it goes through the spreader.
- Location
- Scotland
I thought recycled plasterboard was a bit frowned upon, due to the nasties they put into the gypsum. Anti mould agents etc.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Well, the positively love urea with an "inhibitor" which iirc is based on formaldehyde.
- Location
- South West
Apologies for a simple question, but what does gypsum do to high mag soil’s?