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Summer Cover Crop Trial Feb 2014 Week 2

Posted on March 24, 2014 by covercropper

Summer Cover Crop Trial Feb 2014 Week 2 After week 1 the weather was cooler, not many days over 30C. These tropical plants still grew noticeably. It made me wonder if I had, again, missed the boat for a real … Continue reading →

Posted in Method, Seed, Summer broadleaf spp, Summer grass spp, Summer legume spp, Uncategorized | Tagged African marigold, Amaranth, amaranth cover crop, azuki bean, burgundy beans, butterfly pea, chia, cover crop species, cover crop trial, cover cropping, cowpea, fox millet, French white millet, guar, kenaf, lab lab, mung bean, panorama fox millet, pearl millet, red panicum fox millet, rice bean, semi arid cover cropping, summer cover crop cocktail, summer cover crop mix, sunflower, tillage radish | 2 Comments

Summer Cover Crop Trial Feb 2014 Week 1

Posted on February 16, 2014 by covercropper

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 | Leave a comment

Summer Cover crop trial Jan 2014

Posted on February 10, 2014 by covercropper

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 | 2 Comments

Summer cover crop trial Dec 2012

Posted on June 22, 2013 by covercropper

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 | Leave a comment

Future blog topics re Summer Cover Cropping – just ask.

Posted on October 6, 2012 by covercropper

Guar plant

Guar, a potential cover crop legume.

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Posted in Method, Seed | Tagged African marigold, black gram, brassicas, burgundy beans, butterfly pea, chia, corn, cover crop, cover crops, cowpea, guar, hollyhock, kenaf, lab lab, millets, moth bean, mungbean, niger / noog, pigeon pea, rice bean, safflower, soybean, sudan and sorghams, sunflower, sunn hemp, velvet bean | 2 Comments