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Cover crops act as a living mulch: to build and hold soil and to smother weeds. They range from long-growing perennials to short-term green manures meant to be slashed in place (mulch). Their leaves shield to soil from hammering rains and sun, and carpet the carpet the earth in fall with nutritious, humus building litter. Their roots drive deep into the soil, loosening the earth, drawing up nutrients, and placing organic matter deep in the ground. | Cover crops act as a living mulch: to build and hold soil and to smother weeds. They range from long-growing perennials to short-term green manures meant to be slashed in place (mulch). Their leaves shield to soil from hammering rains and sun, and carpet the carpet the earth in fall with nutritious, humus building litter. Their roots drive deep into the soil, loosening the earth, drawing up nutrients, and placing organic matter deep in the ground. | ||
- | The more varied covercrops (5- 10 species) we plant: the more diversity in the soil’s life; this will subdue disease and can serve multiple functions: it can build humus, add nitrogen, mine minerals, bust up heavy soil and attract a wide array of helpfull insects. | + | The more varied covercrops (5- 10 species |
There are old farm texts that list more then 15 varieties in their cover crops including | There are old farm texts that list more then 15 varieties in their cover crops including | ||
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When building soil or feeding hungry plants, go heavy on nitrogen fixers. | When building soil or feeding hungry plants, go heavy on nitrogen fixers. | ||
- | Many legumes, herbs and not to forget weeds! improve the soil by adding suitable nitrogen via their roots, surrounding plants then can absorb these nutrients (nitrogen). | + | Many **legumes**, **herbs** and not to forget |
Experts both modern and ancient recommend that legumes should be mulched (slashed and leave it at the spot) before the seeds set, because the plant drains nitrogen from stem and leaves at maturity and concentrates in the seeds. | Experts both modern and ancient recommend that legumes should be mulched (slashed and leave it at the spot) before the seeds set, because the plant drains nitrogen from stem and leaves at maturity and concentrates in the seeds. | ||
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All clovers are great nitrogen fixers, attract beneficial insect, act as a mulch and provide trace minerals. They can be hacked down early in spring and in the mid till late summer: | All clovers are great nitrogen fixers, attract beneficial insect, act as a mulch and provide trace minerals. They can be hacked down early in spring and in the mid till late summer: | ||
- | ***Alexandrijnse klaver – Berseem Clover - Trifolium alexandrinum (L.), (annual) | + | |
- | ***Crimson Clover** - Inkarnaatklaver - Trifolium incarnatum | + | ***Crimson Clover** - Inkarnaatklaver - Trifolium incarnatum |
- | ***Red Kenland Clover** - Rode klaver - Trifolium pratense – edible and perennial and native (good for crop rotation), | + | ***Red Kenland Clover** - Rode klaver - Trifolium pratense – edible and perennial and native (good for crop rotation), |
- | ***White Dutch Clover** - Witte klaver – Trifolium repens (perennial and native and edible) | + | ***White Dutch Clover** - Witte klaver – Trifolium repens (perennial and native and edible) |
- | ***Strawberry clover** - Aardbeiklaver – frifolium tragiferum – native and perennia1 | + | ***Strawberry clover** - Aardbeiklaver – frifolium tragiferum – native and perennia1 |
- | Nitro persian Clover - Trifolium resupinatum - | + | |
- | ***Blue Lupin** -Blauwe Lupinen | + | |
- | -***Vetch** - Wikke - Vicia – (annual) provide trace minerals, mulch and nitrogen, also usefull for insects, its a climber best to mix it with for instance: haver of rogge, lupine en phacelia) | + | |
- | -***Luzerne -Alfalfa - Medicago sativa - you can try aswell, they have a long taproot with which they can penetrate deep down in the ground to get minerals, which otherwise are not accesable for other plants, they love dry, fertile and a calcareous [kalkrijke] grounds - (perennial, edible ) | + | ***Vetch** - Wikke - Vicia – (annual) provide trace minerals, mulch and nitrogen, also usefull for insects, its a climber best to mix it with for instance: haver of rogge, lupine en phacelia) |
- | x-***Fenugreek** - Fenegriek - trigonella foenumgraecum – opens heavy soils (edible) (annual) | + | ***Luzerne** -Alfalfa - Medicago sativa - you can try aswell, they have a long taproot with which they can penetrate deep down in the ground to get minerals, which otherwise are not accesable for other plants, they love dry, fertile and a calcareous [kalkrijke] grounds - (perennial, edible ) |
+ | ***Fenugreek** - Fenegriek - trigonella foenumgraecum – opens heavy soils (edible) (annual) | ||
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If you mix white clover and the vegetable seeds; it will act as a living mulch, enriching the soil, keeping the ground moist and well aerated and hold back even the strong weeds as bijvoet - Artemisia vulgaris. As with the vegetables, it is important to choose the right time to sow the clover seed. (Late summer or fall sowing is the best, the roots develop during the cold months, giving the clover a jump on the annual spring grasses. Or you can also sow early in spring. Once the clover takes hold, you do not need to sow it again or 5 or 6 years. | If you mix white clover and the vegetable seeds; it will act as a living mulch, enriching the soil, keeping the ground moist and well aerated and hold back even the strong weeds as bijvoet - Artemisia vulgaris. As with the vegetables, it is important to choose the right time to sow the clover seed. (Late summer or fall sowing is the best, the roots develop during the cold months, giving the clover a jump on the annual spring grasses. Or you can also sow early in spring. Once the clover takes hold, you do not need to sow it again or 5 or 6 years. | ||
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+ | Make sure you don’t have allopathic (die het tegeover gewilde effect bewerkstelligen) plants (plants that release toxins to nihilist the growth of neary plants) | like the Jerusalem Artichoke | ||
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+ | === Cabbage Family / | ||
+ | ***White Mustard** - Gele mosterd – White Mustard -Sinapis alba (L.): Annual, have extensive roots that punch through hard subsoil, aerating the earth and adding humus as the roots die, attracts insects | ||
+ | ***Mustard** – Mosterd - Brassica spp- : (annual) | ||
+ | ***Green radish** - Bladrammanas (radijs) - Raphanus sativus | ||
+ | ***Radish** - Radijs, Ramenas – Raphanus radius. Radished and daikon grow well in heavy soil; let them flower, and then snap them off at ground level. Each daikon will break up the clay and then rot, leaving quite an amount of organic matter in the soil | ||
+ | ***Oil-seed Rape** - Bladkool - Brassica napus subsp. oleifera ((DC.) Metzg.) | ||
+ | ***Knopherik** – Wild radish - Raphanus raphanistrum or sativius -wilde radijs (heeft Flora) | ||
+ | ***Turnip** - Meiraap - Brassica rapa subsp. | ||
+ | ***Rapeseed** - Rapen – Brassica napus; opens heavy soil (annual) | ||
+ | ***Turnip, Rabe** – Koolzaad, Knolraap, Koolraab – Brassica napus | ||
+ | *** Gold of Pea** – Huttentut (of boterzaad) - Camelina sativa (annual - edible heeft Flora) | ||
- | === Pea family / Vlinderbloemigen === | ||
- | members of the Pea family do have a taproot to penetrate deeper in the underground and they can fix nitrogen from the air and give this slowly to the ground. [niet gebruiken bij voor of na teelt an vlinderbloemigen ivm versterking van schimmels.] | ||
- | Vele vlinderbloemige are Clover, all clovers are great nitrogen fixers, atract beneficial insects and act as a mulch and provide trace minerals. They can be hacked down early in spring and in the mid till late summer: | ||
- | ***Egyptian Clover** - Alexandrijnse klaver - Trifolium alexandrinum | ||
- | ***Italian Clover** - Inkarnaatklaver - Trifolium incarnatum | ||
- | ***Red clover** - Rode klaver - Trifolium pratense – edable (goede teeltwisselaar), | ||
- | *Witte klaver (het ras rector is zeer geschikt), | ||
- | ***Blue Lupin** - Blauwe Lupinen - Lupinus angustifolius | ||
- | ***Vetch** - Wikke -Vicia: provide trace minerals, mulch and nitrogen, also usefull for insect, its a climber best to mix it with for instance: haver of rogge, | ||
- | ***Alfalfa** - Luzerne - - Medicago sativa - you can try aswell, they can penetrate deep down in the ground to get minerals, which otherwise are not accesable | ||
- | If you mix white clover and the vegetable seeds; it will act as a living mulch, enriching the soil, keeping the ground moist and well aerated and hold back even the strong weeds as bijvoet - Artemisia vulgaris. As with the vegetables, it is important to choose the right time to sow the clover seed. (Late summer | + | [dont use the plants above before |
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+ | === Groundcovers acting as living mulch ==== | ||
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- | === Cabbage Family | + | Quick spreading plants will make a continuous living mulch: everytime you chop them down and leave the residu at its place: it will feed the ground. |
+ | ***Wild strawberrie ** - Bosaardbei | ||
+ | ***Comfrey** - Smeerwortel - comfries (symphytum spp):the leaves are edible, the roots are nutriënt hounds, and they produce much biomass. (they can be hacked down 5 times a year), provide trace minerals, | ||
+ | ***Carpet weed** - Zenegroen (kruipend) - Ajuga reptans L. | ||
+ | ***Lungwort** - Longkruid - Pulmonaria is de beste bodembedekker voor vochtige schaduw. | ||
+ | ***Ground Ivy** - Hondsdraf | ||
+ | ***Mints** - Munt - Mentha (L.) | ||
- | Its from the same familie of the cabbages – [so dont plant before or after cabbages– because the moulds which leave the cabbage family behind cant be broken down, but will be intensified] | ||
- | ***White Mustard** -Gele mosterd – White Mustard -Sinapis alba (L.) en | ||
- | ***Green radish** - Bladrammanas (radijs) - Raphanus sativus | ||
- | ***Oil-seed Rape** - Bladkool - Brassica napus subsp. oleifera | ||
- | ***Turnip** - Meiraap - Brassica rapa subsp. | ||
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=== Other green manures === | === Other green manures === | ||
- | ***Phacelia** - Phacelia - Phacelia (Juss.); is met geen ander ras verwant daarom heel geschikt – voor alle gronden geschikt – | + | ***Phacelia** - Phacelia - Phacelia (Juss.); is met geen ander ras verwant daarom heel geschikt – voor alle gronden geschikt – vorstgevoelig- trekt bijen aan – levert zeer goede humus, en is tevens een bodemonstsmetter. |
- | vorstgevoelig- trekt bijen aan – levert zeer goede humus, en is tevens een bodemonstsmetter. | + | |
***Spurreys** - Spurrie | ***Spurreys** - Spurrie | ||
***Borage (tailworth)** - Berganie - Borago officinalis | ***Borage (tailworth)** - Berganie - Borago officinalis | ||
- | ***Wild radish** - Knopherik – Raphanus raphanistrum or sativius -wilde radijs (heeft Flora) | ||
***Sunflower** - Zonnebloem - Helianthus annuus: goede combi met Boekweit | ***Sunflower** - Zonnebloem - Helianthus annuus: goede combi met Boekweit | ||
- | ***Chicory** - Wilde Chirochei - Chicorium intimus: | + | ***Chicory** - (Wilde Chirochei) - Chicorium intimus: |
***Common Chervil** - Kervel echte - Anthriscus cerefolium | ***Common Chervil** - Kervel echte - Anthriscus cerefolium | ||
- | ***Rape** - Knolraap -Brassica napus (L.) | + | |
- | -mosterdzaad | + | |
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- | ====== Groundcovers acting as living mulch ====== | ||
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- | Quick spreading plants will make a continuous living mulch. | ||
- | ***Wild strawberrie ** - Bosaardbei | ||
- | ***Comfrey** - Smeerwortel - comfries (symphytum spp):the leaves are edible, the roots are nutriënt hounds, and they produce much biomass. (they can be hacked down 5 times a year), provide trace minerals, | ||
- | ***Carpet weed** - Zenegroen (kruipend) - Ajuga reptans L. | ||
- | ***Lungwort** - Longkruid - Pulmonaria is de beste bodembedekker voor vochtige schaduw. | ||
- | ***Ground Ivy** - Hondsdraf | ||
- | ***Mints** - Munt - Mentha (L.) | ||
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