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- From: "Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Companion Planting in Sweet Corn
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 14:43:07 -0500
Jeff,
I have some information on interplanting, but, I will dig it out and get
back to you.
Peg Cook, Agronomist
Cook's Consulting
Lowville, NY.
pegcook AT northnet.org
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeffery Blake <echoecho AT bedford.heartland.net>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 12:22 PM
Subject: Companion Planting in Sweet Corn
> I am working on transitioning to organic or more sustainable sweet corn
> production. In the future I want to fall plant rye and hairy vetch as a
> winter cover crop to reduce weed pressure and to fix nitrogen. Do I have
> any alternatives for Spring or summer seeded Nitrogen fixing companion
> crops. I have considered cowpeas, field peas, and field beans. I want
> Nitrogen fixing while maintaining good ear size. I wouldn't mind cutting
> back population. I raise about 20 acres and have high residue
cultivators,
> planter and a heavy disk.
> My thoughts are spring seeded peas, which I understand fix about 80 lbs N
?.
> I would plant succession of sweet corn between May 1 and June 15. I am
not
> sure my planter would no till into standing peas, might be to much growth.
> so could I mow then no till, could i strip till ahead of the planter, or
> should i just disk it down and plant. if i disk then the peas might not
> have fixed nearly so much N on the first planting. They should be fully
> mature my June 1 I think. Another alternative would be to seed feild
beans
> into standing sweet corn, but would that get enough N to the corn. Would
it
> out compete the corn. the vines would make weed control difficult and
maybe
> the picking. I wonder if that would work for feild corn? Probably
wouldn't
> go through the combine. Pea seed is cheap field bean seed is about $1 a
> pound. Does anybody have any experieces trying anything like this? Any
> thoughts.
>
>
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-
Companion Planting in Sweet Corn,
Jeffery Blake, 02/03/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Companion Planting in Sweet Corn, Alex McGregor, 02/03/2001
- Re: Companion Planting in Sweet Corn, Peg Cook, 02/03/2001
- Re: Companion Planting in Sweet Corn, robert schuler, 02/04/2001
- Re: Companion Planting in Sweet Corn, Peg Cook, 02/04/2001
- Re: Companion Planting in Sweet Corn, Jeffery Blake, 02/05/2001
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