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- From: "Patricia Ruggiero" <ruggierop@earthlink.net>
- To: "'Healthy soil and sustainable growing'" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:57:24 -0400
Arzeena wrote:
> 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.
Some years back, when husband and I were first figuring out cover crops, we
tried a clover (we can't recall what type; husband says maybe "sweet"
clover), into which we set our kale transplants. Our idea was that the
clover would fix N, and that would be good for the kale.
The clover out-competed the kale, quickly and easily, and we lost the entire
kale bed.
In fact, we have never again tried *living* mulches. We do grow cover
crops, but we make certain they're *dead* before we plant into them.
Pat
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Tradingpost, 03/24/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
moon, 03/25/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Tradingpost, 03/25/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?, moon, 03/26/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Arzeena Hamir, 03/28/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?, Ken Hargesheimer, 03/28/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Patricia Ruggiero, 03/28/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?, Eva, 03/28/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
laurabrownmckenzie, 03/28/2010
- [Livingontheland] green manure/cover crops, Ken Hargesheimer, 03/29/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Ken Hargesheimer, 03/27/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Emery Mitchamore, 03/28/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Patricia Ruggiero, 03/28/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Emery Mitchamore, 03/28/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Patricia Ruggiero, 03/28/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?, Charles, 03/28/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Patricia Ruggiero, 03/28/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Emery Mitchamore, 03/28/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?, Pumpkin Lady, 03/28/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Patricia Ruggiero, 03/28/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Emery Mitchamore, 03/28/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
Tradingpost, 03/25/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] no-till?,
moon, 03/25/2010
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