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- From: "Elizabeth Pike" <pike AT always-online.com>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Green manures in the growing season
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:21:22 -0500
>From Lee: >(I'm in Zone 8), but I don't know much about using them during
the growing season.<
Hi Lee! I'm in zone 8, too, though at the moment it feels more like
3-getting snow, sleet & ice! I love winter-first real one we've had in 3-4
years! (Fewer fire ants & mosquitoes this summer!)
I do no-till, too, on certain beds, though this year I've turned everything.
I'm redesigning/reorienting the garden, which I do every 3-4 years. It's
been 5 years since the last time. Generally, green manures are undersown
4-5 weeks after main crop is sown. Here's my calendar for green manures &
crops during the growing season:
Corn, undersown with soybeans & hairy vetch (I do not till this under, just
mow it down in the late fall.)
Brassicas-undersown with white dutch clover (do not till, or mow)
Peas-undersown with clovers as above
Tomatos, peppers-undersown with clover, use cardboard in July, August
Squash & cucumbers (grown on trellis)-undersown with hairy vetch
Beans, cabbages, collards, chard-undersown with whatever I have left!
Salad greens-straw mulch
Potatos-straw (& one experimental patch of sweet alyssum)
Root crops-undersown with clover, not too close to plant
The green manures are selected to help that crop, and the one following
later in the season, or next year. When I allow rest for a bed, it is
started by a season long growth of annual alfalfa, then 6 months of chickens
or rabbits, who turn the green manure & refertilize it, then I let it rest
another 6 months before use.
Hope this helps!
Liz Pike
Morningstar Gardens
Pollocksville, North Carolina
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Green manures in the growing season,
Elizabeth Pike, 01/29/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Green manures in the growing season, Elizabeth Pike, 01/31/2000
- Re: Green manures in the growing season, Grandad, 01/31/2000
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