Re: [Community_garden] Intercropping vegetables with green manure crops

Sam, "turning over those green manure ". Try leaving them on top of the soil and never till. You will see it works even better. Ken Hargesheimer -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [Community_garden] Intercropping vegetables with green manure crops

Hi Chris,  For the last several years I made half hearted attempts to plant cover crops in the fall, after all the summer things were harvested. Problem was, by sowing that late in the summer and fall, sometimes the cover crop didn't have time to grow and spread before cold weather. So last year

Re: [Community_garden] Intercropping vegetables with green manure crops

To: Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:30 PM Subject: [Community_garden] Intercropping vegetables with green manure crops I know this title probably sounds off the wall, but I have just started finding references on Rodale's New Farm site and elsewhere about growing a nitrogen fixing green manure c

Re: [Community_garden] Intercropping vegetables with green manure crops

Chris, Using green manure/cover crops means that a gardener never has to purchase fertilizer. A few soil are low in trace minerals but rare. You can intercrop or rotate beds. For tomatoes, I cut off the winter cover crop off even with the ground, open up a 6? inch area and plant the tomatoe pla

[Community_garden] Intercropping vegetables with green manure crops

I know this title probably sounds off the wall, but I have just started finding references on Rodale's New Farm site and elsewhere about growing a nitrogen fixing green manure crop at the same time as a veg crop.  The timing seems to vary.  One instruction said to let the vegetable grow for 25%