To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] black medic
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:22:54 -0600
At 04:14 PM 2/19/2003 +0000, you wrote:
In s.WI black medic seems to establish itself as a weed pretty easily, in
crop fields.
I saw an article, several years back, about corn growers in IA using black
medic(a legume) as a cover crop in no-till corn. Seemed to work well in
suppressing undesirable weed growth, grew well in the shade of the corn,
and the additional nitrogen fixation was a plus.