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Re: cover crop mixes for poultry/vegetable multi-cropping
- From: "Bennett" <bennett AT frognet.net>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: cover crop mixes for poultry/vegetable multi-cropping
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:03:25 -0500
>> We've now settled on mixes of grains & annual rye, for several reasons.
>>
>> diminishing their ability to germinate. This type of mix may also be
>> established much later in the season, an important aspect in a climate
>>
>favored "guild" at the moment is a combination of cereal grains (rye &
>oats) for height & carbon, annual ryegrass (mainly for filling in the
>space between the cereal grains), and field peas for N fixing & biomass.
>
The drough just about wiped out our pastures, which were in
very poor and over-grazed condition anyway. Can any of the
above mentioned be seeded now, or sometime this spring?
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cover crop mixes for poultry/vegetable multi-cropping,
Andy Lee & Pat Foreman, 02/08/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: cover crop mixes for poultry/vegetable multi-cropping, Aaron Silverman, 02/15/2000
- Re: cover crop mixes for poultry/vegetable multi-cropping, Bennett, 02/15/2000
- Re: cover crop mixes for poultry/vegetable multi-cropping, Bennett, 02/22/2000
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