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  • From: "Aliza" <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] question on no-till planting an old pasture
  • Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:00:40 -0800

There are also methods for different types of plants for laying down the old stalks and drilling underthem. Different methods for different mulch plants as well as the next crop.

Aliza
----- Original Message ----- From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] question on no-till planting an old pasture



Cover crops can be winter-killed or mowed in fall and left to decompose
and/or mulch for spring planting. Check the newfarm.org site for no-till
planter information.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

On 12/15/2007 at 3:20 PM Bobby G wrote:

Well, it looks like we may have as much as 5 acres to
devote to veggies and other crops, land which has been
in organic pasture with cows on it. All this no-till
discussion brings questions to my mind.

I'm wondering how you'd cover-crop this, then make the
cover crop available as nutrients in time for
late-spring planting of certain vegetables for
farmer's market purposes.

i did note one type of fava bean in the Fedco catalog
which says it will germinate in 35-45 degree soil,
which is where central Wisconsin soils are at in early
spring.

if you were to use this cover crop in a no-till
fashion, you'd have to just mow it close to the
ground, then plant amid the stubble right? if you
disked or roto-tilled, you'd no longer be no-tilling.


does this take a particular kind of heavy-duty
planting drill or something? i'm used to having a
nice fluffy well-tilled seedbed to work with, and
no-till doesn't sound like that at all. keep in mind
this is a former pasture where plants like Reed canary
grass are used to getting their way. not a
vegetable-seedling friendly environment, that.

any suggestions will be mulled over and chewed on like
a stalk of Reed canary grass [already 6 feet tall by
the first week of June...]

bobby g.
wisc.



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