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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


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