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NYJER in a cover crop cocktail mix
Nyjer as a Cover Crop Mix choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizotia_abyssinica Aka niger, noog/nug, nyger, nyjer, or Niger seed; ramtil or ramtilla; inga seed; and blackseed. It also gets called niger thistle, but it is not a thistle. Powers-that-be also implore us to pronounce it Nyjer, not Nigger. It is an erect, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Method, Seed, Summer broadleaf spp, Trials
Tagged adele slade, australian gene bank, blackseed, glenmore, guizotia abyssinica, inga seed, niger, niger / noog, niger cover crop, niger thistle, nug, nyger, nyjer, nyjer cover crop, peter slade, ramtil, ramtilla, rb dessert co, Sally Norton
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The more I see about cover cropping being toyed with in Australia, especially via Twitter.com, the more I feel redundant, as if “my work here is done”. And anything else I can add will verge on rambling, when there plenty … Continue reading