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  • From: Charlie <ckavin@charter.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches
  • Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:23:11 -0500

Bob, When do you do what?

I am interested in when you sew your cover crop and which do you sew in what order.

I'll be doing he same in a couple of months.


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Charlie, Gardening in Saint Charles County, Missouri Zone 5/6

---- Robert Monie <bobm20001@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:
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>There's a better way to control weeds. Anyone?
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>paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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>Hi Paul,
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>First, I agree that the living mulch system described for growing tomatoes can work very well. Here in south Louisiana, hairy vetch often does not flourish, but I use well-inoculated short white clover (Dutch or Louisiana S2) instead.
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>Vetch is not very alleopathic so it is not surprising that weeds flourish in a vetch environment. Buckwheat and annual rye are substantially alleopathic, so I use them both sequentially and then undersow the white clover beneath the tomato plants. Most "garden variety" weeds (I'm not talking about quackgrass or nutgrass) cannot withstand a heavy carpet of buckwheat or rye. The problems I have with tomatoes concern caterpillers, rust and viral disease--never weeds. With proper rotation of heavy buckwheat and rye cover crops, except for an occasional maverick that is easily plucked out, the weeds just don't appear, at least on my small field (I can't say what would happen on large acreage farms).
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>Bob Monie
>New Orleans/River Ridge, LA
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