{"id":3859,"date":"2013-07-25T16:33:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2013-07-26T20:59:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T12:59:43","slug":"different-soil-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/25\/different-soil-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Different soil types"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013025-011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3849\" alt=\"2013025 011\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013025-011-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013025-011-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013025-011.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is a great image showing the range of soils we have across the property &#8211; gutless grey sands, humus rich black soil and red\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laterite\" target=\"_blank\">lateritic<\/a>\u00a0gravelly loam soils &#8211; the main wine producing soils in the Margaret River wine region. \u00a0We have mostly grey sand and ironstone &#8220;coffee rock&#8221; on the top of our ridge where we have built most of the infrastucture, planted trees and this year&#8217;s oats.\u00a0\u00a0A small band of grey sand is \u00a0visible at the south-eastern \u00a0boundary of the new oat paddock on our valley floor, which at 100m above sea level is almost 20 metres lower. \u00a0Most of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/20\/thinking-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\">new oat paddock<\/a> looks like red loam with good clay content which will be much better for growing our oats, and anything else. \u00a0 The new area is about 2 acres, compared to our current 3 acre paddock,<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130726-035.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3874\" alt=\"20130726 035\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130726-035-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130726-035-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130726-035.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> but we should get closer to 80 bales per acre rather than the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/125-bales\/\" target=\"_blank\">50 per acre we got from the sandy soil<\/a>. \u00a0 Those 160 bales of oaten hay and the 120 of meadow hay will be enough for the horses and goats for the year. \u00a0We will probabaly chaff some of the oaten hay too. \u00a0Next plan is to find somewhere to grow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpi.vic.gov.au\/agriculture\/dairy\/pastures-management\/dryland-lucerne\/establishing-dryland-lucerne\" target=\"_blank\">alfalfa\/lucerne<\/a> and we will almost be self sufficient for horse and goat feed. \u00a0Our neighbour said that the bottom corner of the paddock was a bit wet &#8211; he sank in a bit &#8211; so we won&#8217;t be growing it down this low as it doesn&#8217;t like to get waterlogged. \u00a0The red soils may have too much aluminium for the lucerne too. \u00a0We will get some soil tests done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great image showing the range of soils we have across the property &#8211; gutless grey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013025-011.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}