Question
I had a soil analysis done and everything was optimum or better! Wow!
Anyway, I'd like to know if just using liqiud seaweed and fish emulsion next year is going to be enough or should I add anything else.
Also, what are your thoughts on planting clover between the rows?

Dave

Answer
Nitrogen being one of the more fleeting elements, Liquid Seaweed (typically around 0.1-0.0-1.0) and Fish Emulsion, both high in N, are two excellent amendments.  Microbes anywhere you put them will be pleased as punch.

Your Clover idea is popular and effective.  Sonoma County, Calif's Torres Family Vineyards is an Organic Farm growing grapes for wine.  See what they say under 'Organics and Biodynamics', then 'Carpet of Clover':

www.marimarestate.com/page/organic_farming.php

Torres Family writes: 'To avoid using herbicides, we create a 'carpet' of clover under the vine rows.  Clover is an ideal cover crop here because it is a low-growth grass that inhibits the taller and more pernicious, unwanted weeds.  

The cover crops also help protect the Soil from erosion during the rainy season.  After the cover crop has gone to seed (and the tractor can get in) we either mow it, if we want to decrease the vigor, or till it into the Soil if we want to build up the topsoil.'

Cowpeas, Vetches, Clovers and Alfalfas are 'Leguminous Cover Crops' that seize N from the air, 'fix' it to put it in a plant-available form, and pour the results into the Soil.  Rye, Buckwheat and Sweet Clover take insoluble Phosphorus out of the Soil and fix it. In most areas, a Summer cover crop of cowpeas (for Nitrogen) and buckwheat (for Phosphorus) are easy, and cost-effective way to prepare the ground for Fall.

Great idea.

THE LONG ISLAND GARDENER