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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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| 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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| - | Quick spreading plants will make a continuous living mulch. | + | 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 | ***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, | ***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, | ||
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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 – vorstgevoelig- trekt bijen aan – levert zeer goede humus, en is tevens een bodemonstsmetter. | ***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. | ||
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| ***Common Chervil** - Kervel echte - Anthriscus cerefolium | ***Common Chervil** - Kervel echte - Anthriscus cerefolium | ||
| - | 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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