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Information on the planting, management and research of cover crops.

/r/CoverCrops

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Best Cover Crops for Texas

Is anyone here familiar with some good cover crops that can survive Texas weather? I want a to convert an area of my yard into a garden, and I want to have some cover crops I can chop down so I can feed the soil before I plant the veggies. Any good recommendations at to what I should use?

7 Comments
2022/09/14
23:25 UTC

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Anyone here grow their own rye cover crop seed?

Been thinking about putting in a 3rd “Cash Crop” so that I could possibly put in a legume before corn planting next spring.

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2022/09/04
03:35 UTC

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Cover Crops for feeding chickens! So brilliant!

I just read this article from u/trueleafmarket about using cover crops to feed your free-range chickens. https://www.trueleafmarket.com/blogs/articles/cover-crops-provide-natural-feed-for-free-range-chickens?_pos=1&_psq=chicken&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Has anyone on this page tried doing this?

2 Comments
2022/08/12
22:19 UTC

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Basic question: Why does plowing reduce carbon content?

I have implemented the following two year rotation on a field. Seed corn, overwinter with winter wheat, wheat, over winter with cool weather cover crop, plow in spring and plant seed corn again.

I am integrating principles of cover cropping and no till but will I not get any benefit if I am plowing every other spring?

2 Comments
2022/05/04
16:04 UTC

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