/r/CoverCrops
Information on the planting, management and research of cover crops.
/r/CoverCrops
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?
Been thinking about putting in a 3rd “Cash Crop” so that I could possibly put in a legume before corn planting next spring.
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?
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?