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  • To: pech <pech9 AT rocketmail.com>, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Undersowing sweet corn
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:05:38 -0700

If you are growing corn for market you don't want anything competing with the corn. Ear size, husk  color and husk quality are easily affected by even a weed here and there. The only interseeded crop that has ever worked is perennial or annual rye grass seeded when the corn is two ft. tall. I apply it with a simple electric ATV spinner spreader on the front of my tractor. Ryegrass will not become a factor until after the corn is ready to pick but will make a great ground cover 30 days after the corn is picked and it will grow in hot or cool weather... Bob.

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From: pech <pech9 AT rocketmail.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Undersowing sweet corn
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:14:40 -0700 (PDT)

what about pole beans?


From: Richard Moyer <ramoyer AT gmail.com>
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Undersowing sweet corn

Message: 4
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:22:34 -0400
To add to Pam and Etienne:
Having grown up picking, shelling and eating them, will also suggest
pinkeye and other southern (field) peas, aka cowpeas for undersowing
corn.  Shade tolerant, come up well in dry soil, resist Japanese and
Mexican bean beetles.  Have extrafloral nectaries to attract and feed
beneficial insects.  Seeds, once ripening and high in protein, can be
harvested by, or saved for poultry.  We enjoy eating them in the
'green shell' stage (though these pod colors vary).

Some pinkeye types have a tendency to run, which helps as a smother
crop, but also could pull down some weaker types of corn if planted
too early before corn matures.  When we plant with weaker corn types,
we untwist these wanderers from the stalks.  The growing cowpea tips
are edible, for humans and livestock.

Richard Moyer
SW VA
Planting more cowpeas today



From: Etienne Goyer <etienne.goyer AT outlands.ca>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] R?f?: Re:  undersowing sweet corn
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Message-ID: <4E033E1A.20709 AT outlands.ca">4E033E1A.20709 AT outlands.ca>
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Perhaps you should undersow edamame, and thus get a marketable crop out
of your smother crop?  No idea how well that would work, but it sounds
like an interesting idea.  I might try it eventually.


On 11-06-23 08:32 AM, Lova Andriamanjay wrote:
> Thank you Pam for your reply. I will definitely try soybeans!
>
> Lova
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