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Greens as a Secondary Income from your Cash Crop Plants

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But did you know that our gardens have delectable green vegetables available for harvesting and consumption while we wait for the fruits to grow. Harvest the leaves when young and tender, as older leaves can be fibrous. Usually, you have them when harvesting large amounts of root carrots for storage.

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The Dirt on Cover Crops

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Cover cropping is a means of increasing soil fertility without chemicals. How do cover crops work? All cash crops (what farmers grow to sell) pull nutrients out of the soil as they mature. It’s important to replenish those nourishing substances after every harvest so future crops can also flourish.

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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

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Identifying Opportunities and Planning Successful cover cropping starts with a strong crop plan and requires additional planning around cash-crop termination and no-till seeding methods. Below are some alternative strategies for seeding no-till cover crops at garden scale. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

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Winter Farming in Florida: Profit Ripe for the Picking

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After Floridas farmers harvest a wide array of summer crops, the fields do not lie dormant for long. The big five cash crops for winter in Florida are leafy greens, strawberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, and blueberries. In Florida, we call the winter growing season the “second season” of agriculture.

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Living Mulch Cover Cropping for Gardens and Small Farms: Managing an “organic matter” system

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They are documenting Lincoln’s living cover crop system, where he undersows Dutch white clover into vegetables after the last cultivation in July. He found that undersowing the clover was an amazing way to get the field covered by harvest. But what if you leave the white clover cover crop to continue growing in the second year?

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Armoring Your Soil for the Winter

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For example, if a fall-winter cash crop was turned over and immediately planted to a spring crop, the summer-winter mix is a good follow up to provide an extended period of rest through the winter. You can also inter-seed winter species to a summer cash crop.

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Hungry and Seemingly Unstoppable: Grasshoppers Invade Canada’s Prairies

Modern Farmer

Even if a farmer does spray, there’s often a wait time between the application of a chemical pesticide and when it’s safe to harvest a crop. This means farms have to keep the crop alive and use up precious water resources in an already water-restricted environment. Crops devoured by grasshoppers. Does it work? Moderately.”