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  • From: dave.kathy AT att.net (Dave & Katharine Campbell)
  • To: sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] conversion factors
  • Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:06:04 +0000

Bob, I like that scheme, and might try it myself.  Question: exactly when do you plow your sedan grass under "before it freezes"?  I like to give my winter rye a good start in the fall to develop roots, get a good start next spring, and so on.  So are you counting on Indian summer days after earliest frosts to start the rye?

 

BTW, a strawberry grower at the NAFEX meeting two years ago told me that sedan grass straw makes absolutely the best strawberry mulch he's ever used.  A possible additional use for just a little of that lush sedan grass?

 

Dave Campbell

Tiffin IA

-------------- Original message from robert schuler : --------------
> > Matt I do the same thing, I prepair my 2005 pumpkin crop this year, I just
> > disced in my rye and then reseeded with sudangrass. I let it grow to three
> > feet tall then mow it back and allow it to grow again three feet then mow it
> > again. I have been told sudan grass can produce 20 tons of organic matter in
> > a 5 month season . I have seen reports of it producing 40 tons a season
> > under ideal conditions in warmer climates. When I apply 50 pounds of
> > nitrogen per acre it can grow 8 feet tall with a little rainfall. We plow
> > it under before it freezes this way it generates a fumigant that kills weeds
> > and soil diseases and leaves us time to reseed with rye...Bob. Sunny Meadow
> > Farm, Bridgeton, NJ.


  • Re: [Market-farming] conversion factors, Dave & Katharine Campbell, 07/01/2004

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