Comments on: Fall/winter cover crop

By: hydroponics

hydroponics — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:38:06 +0000

good decision of putting up a garden in your wide backyard! aside from it is a source of relaxation, it also relieve your worries from environmental hazards due to pollution and others. That’s why im an advocate of gardening too.

By: Daphne Gould

Daphne Gould — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:17:25 +0000

I’m going to be growing a cover crop come winter and have already bought the seed. In my growing area it is cold (zone 6b) so only vetch will overwinter well. Rye was always the traditional pair to vetch, since it survives the winters too. But then UMass did research on which grass to grow with vetch and it turns out that oats are the best even though they are winter killed. Rye is actually an allelopathic plant and reduces the growth of plants (they used corn). The best yields used a mixture of oats and vetch.

By: Shala

Shala — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:55:29 +0000

That is a lot of information. Thanks so much for sharing. I also appreciate the references at the end so I can do some reading on my own!

By: compostings

compostings — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:05:50 +0000

Awesome post. I’ll be cover cropping this year too and you just saved me a ton of research work!