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Re: Till/noTill (was Composted cow manure/rice nutrientcycles)
Hi Mike -
Where are you located? There may be a Soil Foodweb Advisor near you, and that would be a good person to talk with and get direct information from, with hands-on experience with tea and soil organisms. Check the SFI webpage for someone near you.
Would you consider mowing and then strip-till? You till out the bed where you put your crop to be planted, giving it a big enough strip so the crop gets up before the cover crop does. Typically if you add the compost (has to be mature) or compost tea into the planting row, the seeds of the crop pop-up a great deal faster, helping them get taller than the cover crop. The crop then shades the cover, so the cover doesn't cause problems. I'm not sure this will work with vetch as the cover crop, so other folks will probably need to add their expertise here.
Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
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