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  • From: "Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: cover crop nutrition
  • Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:22:26 -0400


I would strongly recommend to get a soil sample tested first. In my 29
years of testing, I have found where organic matter can get to high in the
soil. This usually shows a soil imbalance, and usually Calcium is
deficient, a main nutrient needed by soil microbes to help break down O.M.

Peg Cook, Agronomist
Cook's Consulting

pegcook AT northnet.org

----- Original Message -----
From: artfarmers <akbjn AT hawaiian.net>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: cover crop nutrition


> I live in a high rainfall area and am converting from chemical to
> organic farming and I am getting an adequate crop from planting green
> beans and soy beans ( edamame) and following with a cover crop. After
> the cover crop I follow with a short crop of greens and radish. With
> this rotation will I need to add minerals or will alternating with a
> cover crop provide adequate nutrition. Will I accumulate too much
> nitrogen by covercroppping after each crop. I hope to get two rotations
> a year.
>
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