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+ | ===== Preparing the soil ===== | ||
+ | To prepare the soil for planting a cover crop for green manure I first attack the weeds. | ||
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+ | ==== Race of the ages ==== | ||
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+ | I'm often in a quandary about whether to till (with a diamond hoe) and immediately plant a cover crop or to let weeds sprout, and then hoe and plant. | ||
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+ | The dynamic is that sometimes the weeds get a head start on the green manure and limit its growth, even taking over. | ||
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+ | ==== Latest try ==== | ||
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+ | There must be an ideal way to go at this. Though sometimes it seems that whichever way I try, the weeds get a foothold before the cover crop does. It may depend on how well I have suppressed the weeds in the previous months. In the sweet corn patch at the farm, which I kept in a dust mulch all season, the cover crop appears to be dominant. Maybe that's a good model, but I can't always keep the weeds that much under control. | ||
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+ | More later.... |