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- From: no one <xkarmafarmerx AT yahoo.com>
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- Subject: [Market-farming] Cover Cropping Between Plastic
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 07:00:03 -0700 (PDT)
Does anyone have experience (or know of writing about) cover cropping between rows of plastic mulch? I am hoping to do such on a variety of crops this year - tomatoes, squash, melons, sweet potatoes, eggplant and peppers. I am hoping to use covers to hold our soil together (1 plastic field is running down a hill), and he get a jump start on improving soil in our first year. I was thinking of doing straight rye on some stuff to help keep down weeds - I've seen this done on rows of garlic fairly sucessfully. For vining stuff I need something low growing, but am not sure clover is a good answer because we won't be keeping those fields out of production for long enough for it to do much good. I was thinking
oats and peas possibly - if we kept it mowed until things spread out, but it might still out-compete the vines after that. For tomatoes and peppers I was thinking of using a pea, oat, buckwheat blend, but was wondering if we'd have issues with the buckwheat going to seed and being a problem. Thanks for any suggestions..
.John DiZazzo
Roundabout Farm /
Compassionate Roots
Keswick, VA
.John DiZazzo
Roundabout Farm /
Compassionate Roots
Keswick, VA
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[Market-farming] Cover Cropping Between Plastic,
no one, 05/10/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Cover Cropping Between Plastic, Sam White, 05/10/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Cover Cropping Between Plastic, Sharon and Steve, 05/10/2007
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] Cover Cropping Between Plastic, deberryemail-website, 05/10/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Cover Cropping Between Plastic, SaladG, 05/11/2007
- [Market-farming] Cover Cropping Between Plastic, courtney mcleod, 05/11/2007
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