Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Have you checked with the source of your cowpea seed? No experience with
cowpeas here, though it's said they grow well outside the South. Your
collard symptoms could have several causes. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/27/2006 at 9:39 PM Alan Whitaker wrote:

>I was wondering if anyone here has seen any results in nitrogen fixation 
>from inoculating cowpea seed? 
>I've noticed that here in south AL, that the legume weeds have all got 
>nodules on their roots.  My biggest weed is the Florida begger weed and 
>in the fall and spring, common vetch.  But when I plant cowpeas and 
>such, I'm not seeing any nodules.
>The reason I ask is, I try to plant my collards and other winter crops 
>where I've had peas.  But this year I set out 1K collards where the 
>first crop of peas were, but I also spread poultry litter on that 
>patch.  My second planting of collards went where my late peas were that 
>I had hogged down after picking.  Those plants look to be nitrogen 
>deficient. Stunted and lower leaves drying.  I thought that I ought to 
>try the inoculate this next spring.  Any ideas?
>Alan Whitaker
>Georgiana, AL
>USA
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