Lime on top of sowed beans?

[robin banks]

Would it be ok to spread ground limestone on top of freshly sowed beans. Contractor was late coming to spread yesterday. So I would have to spread it on top of the ground now and not incorporate it. Or not spread it at all. Can spread it today. Also need to spray pre emerge on as well.

 

[Against_the_grain]

Yes be fine. Biggest problem would be wheelings.

Not sure about the pre em though

 

[Clive]

lime fine on top (better imo)

wait a few days before you do the pre em - ideally after a bit of rain

 

[Will Blackburn]

We used to use cow cubicle lime on peas pre and post em to absolutely no detrimental effect.

 

[E_B]

Did the same this Autumn. Wheelings every 12m though.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

The lime itself and the way it works will be fine.

The only issue I’ve had is that beans don’t like compaction. The wheelings could be seen for a while, but I think the crop evened out eventually.

A customer chanced it once on a -11 degree frost, which I thought was a bit mad but he persuaded me. It was fine and better than doing it on soft ground.

Lots of crops are resilient to a wheeling and damage to leaf from tyres, but beans definitely don’t like compaction.

 

[teslacoils]

We used to put fibriphos on spring beans post drilling and pre emergence. Was fine.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I was going to add, maybe ask your contractor to run part loaded if possible. That will prevent some compaction but may lead to more running about on the crop unless there are uncropped headlands to run back to the heap.

 

[robin banks]

We spread it just before the sprayer man. And put on a bit lighter than planned. At 1.5 ton an acre. Spread it with small loads to reduce compaction. Hopefully will be ok

 

[Neddy flanders]

Use granular lime. No wheelings. Cover 200ha a day, no lorries. Easy.

 

[DieselRob]

Use granular lime. No wheelings. Cover 200ha a day, no lorries. Easy.

How much is granular lime?

 

[benny6910]

How much is granular lime?

I bought half a lorry load along with some p n k and the lime was £120 a ton I think. It was last year so I have forgotten exactly the price.