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  • From: <garlicgrower AT green-logic.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] When to plow under cowpeas as a cover crop
  • Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 18:09:21 -0400

Hi, Folks!

I’m doing cowpeas as cover crop before garlic because the soil needs the nitrogen and the extension agent said the cowpeas would be more drought-resistant than soybeans.

 

I’m not seeing a lot written about cowpeas as a cover crop.  When should I plow them under to keep them from re-seeding in my garlic?  At flowering?  When the cowpeas are in the pod, but green?  Or can I just let the cowpeas mature because the winter will kill the seed anyway?

 

Thanks for the input.  My location is below, if that helps.

 

Dorene Pasekoff

Hill Creek Farm

Pottstown, PA 19465

USDA Zone 6




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