Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

A winter kill annual cover crop won't revive in the spring and makes its own 
mulch.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/25/2010 at 8:02 AM moon@ceva.net wrote:

>Ken, et al,
>  I have a supper wooly rye cover that 4 passes w/ a spader then 2 w/
>a rototiller have barely snuffed. I cultuvate w/ an alice G through a
>sandy loam. how can I grow greens, potatoes, peas thw this rye?.Yes,
>I'm drownded in machenerey, oxidising my microbes, accelerating
>organic matter decay. Anything but roundup is better then this.How to
>mulch a 1/2 acre?
>Do you have pix of your place? I know this is a lifetime of learning.
>before I go moter down some more cover,what chance of planting thw
>it?, it's already 20" high.
>I was going to start mowing.
>  thanks, Ann in Va.
>