Posted by paul on June 02, 2015 at 09:38:54 from (76.77.197.114):
In Reply to: Deep rooted cover posted by phil_n on June 02, 2015 at 08:30:00:
Well technically, trees are about as deep rooted as it gets so you had a deep rooted crop there? ;)
Alfalfa grows deeper and fatter every year, so if you plant alfalfa and let it be 3-5 years, that is as good as it gets.
Rye sends down fine roots and is a great companion crop, grows anywhere and tough.
Clover is finer roots not as deep, but is a good cover.
If you need to kill ever year or fit into a shorter timeframe, tillage radish in late summer or fall, and turnips any time, are real good at sending a small tap root down deep and pulling up any nutrients it finds down there into the tuber at the surface. They mix well with rye or cheap oats to make a nice mix of cover crop.
In my oats field I mix in some plow down blend (seed store mixes cheap alfalfa seed and clover seeds) with some turnip seed, plant it all in early spring, swath and combine the oats, bale the straw, let it grow some, the lost oats seeds reseed if we catch a rain, and is get some nice fall grazing for the cattle from the clover, alfalfa, turn up tops and bulbs, and regrow oats. It would make a fine green cover without the grazing.
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