Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Much of the benefit of cover crops are in the year round cover, the root
mass, nitrogen fixation by legumes, and if you want, cutting and composting
in windrows. It's said that the moldboard plow is the fastest way to
oxidize existing humus and waste nitrogen from legumes by exposure to
surface air. You might check the system used by Steve Groff at
http://www.cedarmeadowfarm.com/ . 

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net


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On 6/20/2006 at 3:01 PM Greg Bell wrote:

>If I want to avoid tilling my soil because of various structures and 
>organisms I'd be killing, what do I do with my green manure crops (eg. 
>alfalfa, vetch) which are usually tilled under for best effect?
>
>~gb
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