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  • From: "Pam Twin Oaks" <pam AT twinoaks.org>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Was hairy vetch and corn, now soybeans and corn
  • Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:03:41 -0500

I undersow our sweet corn about 30 days after sowing the corn, at the
second cultivation, with soybeans. This works in the sense that the
soybeans will grow in the partial shade, and will take the foot
traffic of harvesting. I don't know how much nitrogen the soybeans
provide. On paper they're not as good as many other legumes at
providing nitrogen or biomass, but they are a warm season crop. They
do help keep the weeds down (we used to have a dreadful pigweed and
smartweed problem). We use soybeans rejected by our tofu-making
business. A bigger growing forage soybean might be better. I just till
with a walk-behind rototiller, broadcast the beans, then till them in
about an inch.

Pam, Twin Oaks, central Virginia, zone 7




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