Nice!.....I think you're off to a good start bambam. If the plot is only 1/2 acre then throw out 1 bag of 17-17-17 now and another one in about a month...rather than two upfront. Soils with low CEC values can only hold and deliver a small amount of nutrients. The more you throw out beyond that holding capacity, then the more fert-$$$ that's just sitting out there waiting to be washed away. Be sure to get a soil test at some point. Right now we can take an educated guess and pretty well assume that you are deficient in most areas but once you get things turned around you don't want to just blindly throw out fert and lime.

That grass I see in the plot is going to jump on you eventually. That is not a bad thing right now. Of course its going to mess up the orderly look that some will think makes it a failed planting.....but to turn around the soil OM, that grass is what we need right now. We can't just keep perpetually producing that thin thatch that we had for this planting. If we do, then a year or two years from now, we will be no farther along than we are right now. Thin thatch = very little OM. Keep us posted.