Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["mcoldiron" <mcoldiron@crcom.net>]

I'm pretty sure I know how to modify my buster planter to a no till planter.  So let's take black eyed peas, for example.  I usually pick 4 or 5 bushels a day for market.  It usually takes a week or so for the peas to grow again, so I pick different rows each day.  I plant enough so I'm starting over at first set of rows at the beginning of the next week. I sell them shelled or by the bushel.  I know black eyed peas will grow here without irrigation.  If I use your method of no till and grow a cover crop for mulch for next year, should I plant fewer rows of peas to get my 4 or 5 bushels a day?  The last time I planted peas, it took about 3/4 of an acre to get my daily quota.

 

Thanks

TxBeeFarmer (Mark)
West Texas Zone 7b

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Ken Hargesheimer

To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing

Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 10:23 AM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] No-till planting

To plant a field [as opposed to a garden planting by hand] use a no-till row-crop planter or a no-till vegetable planter or a no-till drill. 

 

Ken H

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