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Originally Posted by peebee
Just wanted to update the results of my cover cropping: the tomatoes in all 4 beds are huge and lush compared to the ones in the beds that did not get this treatment. I am a believer  . This fall, I will cover crop the other beds.
Question: should I be doing this every year then? Or perhaps alternate years? |
One of the most important principles of soil health is to have a diversity of living plants (and their roots) in the soil at all times, or as much as possible. So yes, every year. It keeps the soil food web vigorous.  A healthy soil means healthy crops.
PS Congratz on your results.
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Scott
AKA The Redbaron
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system."
Bill Mollison
co-founder of permaculture
Last edited by Redbaron; May 18, 2015 at 04:44 PM.
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