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- Don’t count your weeds before they hatch: update on occultation vs. solarization for weed suppression in no-till cabbage August 24, 2016
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- Trading tillage for tarps: an effective way to kill weeds and cover crops? May 26, 2016
- Phacelia is a bumble bee paradise July 8, 2015
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- If you can see it, it’s too much May 13, 2015
- No-till transplanted onions in New England April 12, 2015
- Trying high-residue no-till on a budget March 19, 2015
- Maine is the first state to pay tribute to soils during the International Year of Soils March 12, 2015
- The website will go on, but this project is ending… March 9, 2015
- Under Cover: Rotational No-till and Mulching Systems for Organic Vegetable Farms in Germany February 2, 2015
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Category Archives: Cover Crops
Trying high-residue no-till on a budget
Update 4/1/15: Since writing this post originally, I have received feedback from a few people that this system has been hard to implement effectively. It takes a lot of weight to crimp the cover crops, there can be a good … Continue reading
Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Rye
Tagged hand-held crimper, high-residue no-till, small-scale roller-crimper
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The website will go on, but this project is ending…
When Ray and I were discussing what the domain name for this website should be, he came up with notillveggies.org (or .com– we got both, actually). I’m a little weird and the word “veggies” bugs me because I prefer to call them … Continue reading
Posted in Cover Crops, Vegetables
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Under Cover: Rotational No-till and Mulching Systems for Organic Vegetable Farms in Germany
It sounds like there was a great turnout for Jan’s eOrganic webinar on the cut-and-carry mulch system he and his colleagues are using for organic vegetable production in Germany. My favorite quote: “You can completely screw up the system and … Continue reading
Posted in Cover Crops, Rye, Soil, Soil health, Soil moisture, Soil temperature, Vegetables, Vetch
Tagged cover crop economics, farm economics, high-residue cover crop, mulch, rotational no-till, silage mulch, under_cover
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Mark your calendars and get ready for an information deluge from Germany
Back in 2013, Ray and I got an inquiry from “a farmer in Germany” who was preparing a seminar on soil health and reduced tillage and wanted more information on what we were doing. He did not send a picture … Continue reading
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Can garlic planting get any better? Yes.
I think most vegetable farmers will agree that planting garlic is one of the most satisfying farm chores. There’s something about the end of the season also being the beginning of the next. It’s also one of the most common crops … Continue reading
Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment
Tagged banding with cover crops, horsepower, no-till garlic, oats, peas, zone-till garlic
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Peer-reviewed: you can grow no-till spinach after winterkilled forage radish
I love a good story; in fact, we all love a good story. Scientists have shown that narratives hold a sort of “privileged status” in human cognition over logical communication, which is the form that most science writing takes. A … Continue reading
Posted in Cover Crops, Radish, spinach
Tagged no-till spinach, peer-review
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Grazing cover crops, manure concerns, and bringing cover crops to your own dinner table
If you got your cover crops in early, you might be looking at lush, verdant fields now.* I find that this lushness tends to make farmers either want to feed their animals or feed people, especially when it’s a cover … Continue reading
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Tagged daikon, Food Safety Modernization Act, grazing cover crops
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