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I guess I'll get a thread started.
I'm planting winter rye laced with hairy vetch in the garden patch this fall and in my 1 acre corn field that I just plowed under. The rye will act as a nurse crop for the vetch. The vetch will fix nitrogen in the soil making it avilable to next years crop.
Next spring I plan on taking an end of the corn field for a new garden patch and planting buckwheat in the old garden patch. I've had a garden there for the past 6-7 years so it's time to give it a rest, allowing me to rebuild the tilth and replenish the nutrients I've taken out. Plus I'm having some issues with specific weeds and diseases on my tomatoes, so a year off will allow the good bacteria activity to increase to deal with bad guys. Towards the end of next summer I'll turn my hogs loose in the old patch and let them till it up and fertilize it for me.
Sounds like a plan, if it would quit raining long enough I'd go out and disk the corn field.
I'm planting winter rye laced with hairy vetch in the garden patch this fall and in my 1 acre corn field that I just plowed under. The rye will act as a nurse crop for the vetch. The vetch will fix nitrogen in the soil making it avilable to next years crop.
Next spring I plan on taking an end of the corn field for a new garden patch and planting buckwheat in the old garden patch. I've had a garden there for the past 6-7 years so it's time to give it a rest, allowing me to rebuild the tilth and replenish the nutrients I've taken out. Plus I'm having some issues with specific weeds and diseases on my tomatoes, so a year off will allow the good bacteria activity to increase to deal with bad guys. Towards the end of next summer I'll turn my hogs loose in the old patch and let them till it up and fertilize it for me.
Sounds like a plan, if it would quit raining long enough I'd go out and disk the corn field.