Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Aliza" <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com>]

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
>
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> 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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