Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Arzeena Hamir <arzeenahamir@shaw.ca>]

We planted crimson clover this year after harvesting our garlic. It  
grew well in the late summer and started to die back in the winter but  
our winter was so mild that it didn't die completely and it's now  
totally green again. We're going to try to keep it and see what  
planting into it with kale & Swiss chard transplants is like. We'll  
probably have to mow it down once before we do. If anyone else has any  
tips on other veggies that you can transplant into a living mulch, I'm  
all ears.

Arzeena Hamir MSc. P.Ag.
Coordinator
Richmond Food Security Society
http://richmondfoodsecurity.org
coordinator@richmondfoodsecurity.org
http://twitter.com/arzeena



On 25-Mar-10, at 12:35 PM, Tradingpost wrote:

> 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.
>
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