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  • From: David.Maxwell@dal.ca
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Smother crops - Supplementary question
  • Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:23:23 -0400

There was recently a thread about smother crops. I have been
growing my apples without herbicides, and the planting holes fill in
with sod within a year or so. The trees haven't done well, and I
have been told it is my fault because the sod is robbing the trees of
nitrogen. Perhaps a smother crop, maybe even using something
which will fix nitrogen, would get around this. There was a
suggstion to use "subterranean clover" (whatever that is), which
sounds like it would serve admirably. Anybody know of Canadian
sources for this? (I think one probably could get seed across the
border without too much hassle, but if we can get it in Canada it
would be a lot easier.)
(The lack of vigour may also be due to any number of other factors.
Most of my trees were on M9, but I noted that a few which were on
Ottawa-3 seemed to be doing considerably better. I am in the
process of ripping out all the M9s and re-grafting 100 trees onto O3
this spring)




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