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Rexburg, Idaho

I'm rotating my patch so that only 1/2 is being planted in pumpkins, the other half is to be planted in a cover crop and then tilled in. My thoughts are that this will help to 1-build organic matter
2-increase soil tilth
3-help control weeds (especially if I till it under several times during the summer and replant it in a second cover crop.
4-help retard/delay developement of soil pathogens
Any thoughts on what should be planted?
I was thinking peas early season and then till these in the June/July and replant with a warm season crop like oats/rye or beans and then till this in late August and plant rye again for the fall.

4/18/2008 10:56:32 PM

Greensburg Pa

Buck wheat is good after frost is past. Grows fast and thick. Note must be tilled before seed developement. Good green mamure.

4/18/2008 11:04:28 PM

Rhode Island

rye now until june and then till in
sudan grass until early sept then till in
rye again in mid sept to next spring

4/19/2008 12:00:32 AM

Litchfield N. H. 03052

Sudan grass will produce more organic matter than anything else.

4/19/2008 4:12:08 PM

Rexburg, Idaho

How well does the Sudan grass work at getting into the subsoil?

4/20/2008 1:00:54 AM