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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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Summer Cover Crop Trial Feb 2014 Week 1
Summer Cover Crop Trial Feb 2014 Week 1 What a difference a good soaking and hot soil will do, after 7 days. These pics are the plants so far, which have germinated, size being relative to the icypole sticks. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Method, Seed, Summer broadleaf spp, Summer grass spp, Summer legume spp, Trials, Weeds, Winter cc spp
Tagged African marigold, Amaranth, amaranth cover crop, azuki bean, burgundy beans, butterfly pea, chia, cover crop species, cover crop trial, cover cropping, cowpea, French white millet, guar, kenaf, lab lab, mung bean, pearl millet, rice bean, semi arid cover cropping, summer cover crop cocktail, summer cover crop mix, sunflower, tillage radish
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Summer Cover crop trial Jan 2014
Summer Cover Crop Trial Jan 2014. The garden sized trial for early 2014 is sown, and watered, finally. So it will be a “February germination” trial. And from past lessons learned, the walk rows are wide, I can and will … Continue reading
Posted in Method, Seed, Summer broadleaf spp, Summer grass spp, Summer legume spp, Trials, Weeds
Tagged adzuki beans, African marigold, Amaranth, azuki beans, burgundy beans, butterfly pea, chia, cover crop, cover crop cocktail, cover crop mix, cowpeas, French white millet, guar, kenaf, lab lab, mung bean, mungbean cover crop, panorama fox millet, pearl millet, pigeon pea, red panicum fox millet, rice beans, safflower, semi arid cover cropping, shiroie millet, summer cover crop, sunflower, sunn hemp, tillage radish, Ultrafeed, winfred canola
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Summer cover crop trial Dec 2012
Well ,this has been a long time coming. By request, this is a recent update on the latest trial. These spp and cv were chosen based on what was available, recommended, and out of plain curiosity. They were sown … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Method, Seed, Summer grass spp, Trials, Weeds
Tagged African marigold, Amaranth, azuki bean, black gram, black gram cover crop, brassica carinata, burgundy bean, burgundy bean cover crop, chia, chia cover crop, climate, cover crop species, cowpea, cowpea cover crop, Ethiopian Cabbage, finger millet, finger millet cover crop, French white millet, French white millet cover crop, guar, kenaf, kenaf cover crop, lab lab, lab lab cover crop, marigold cover crop, moth bean, moth bean cover crop, mung bean, mung bean cover crop, niger, niger / noog, niger cover crop, panorama fox cover cover crop, panorama millet, panorama millet cover crop, parsley, parsley cover crop, pearl millet, pearl millet cover crop, pigeon pea, pigeon pea cover crop, red panicum, red panicum cover crop, rice bean, rich bean cover crop, safflower, safflower cover crop, shiroe millet, Shirohie millet, shirohie millet cover crop, soy, soybean, soybean cover crop, sunflower, sunflower cover crop, sunn hemp, sunn hemp cover crop, tepary bean, tillage radish, tillage radish cover crop, velvet bean, velvet bean cover crop, winfred, winfred cover crop
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Soil Conservation and Bean Stubble – the need for Ground Cover, of any sort – maybe a cover crop?
The Soil Conservation potential of Legume stubbles. When I started farming, for some odd reason we were bare fallowing field pea stubbles, with full cultivation, after running a bunch of sheep. What a crazy idea that was – clods and … Continue reading
The Big Question – How to Choose Cover Crop Species and Varieties
THE BIG QUESTION. Without covering ‘why?’ too much, I have a big question. And it won’t be easy to answer or discuss without some background and thoughts. And I could keep it short and sweet, at the risk of being … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Method, Seed, Shout, Trials, Weeds
Tagged Jill Clapperton, Kris Nichols, managing cover crops profitably, summer cover crop, tepary beans, weeds
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TEPARY BEANS in a Cover Crop Cocktail Mix
TEPARY BEANS T is for Tepary Beans, Phaseolus acutifolius which is out of my alphabetical order, but too bad. Plants at about 7 weeks, garden sown mid Jan 2012, watered. Tepary beans had me intrigued because they are known for … Continue reading
Posted in Seed, Shout, Summer legume spp, Trials
Tagged Bob Reid, David Kenyon, Sally Norton, tepary bean, tepary bean seed, tepary beans
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AZUKI BEANS in a Cover Crop Cocktail Mix
AZUKI BEANS Although I haven’t trialled them yet, I must have come across a report (presently unciteable) which mentioned azuki beans, also known as adzuki beans, as a cover crop option in tropical areas. According to the Wikipedia azuki bean entry, they seem … Continue reading
AMARANTH in a Cover Crop Cocktail Mix
Amaranth A is for Amaranth. As the Sage of Omaha said, (to paraphrase), “With all those stock names to study, start with A.” Amaranthus has over 70 species in the genus, according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth I have seen amaranth listed … Continue reading
Posted in Seed, Summer broadleaf spp, Trials
Tagged Amaranth, cover crop species, species
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Aust Cover Crop 