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farmer

Hello fellow Green Fingered :thumbs: er's,

Until 3 years ago I had always used white Mustard as green cover on my vegetable garden, it provided dense, fast growing bulky material, which was easy to top down and incorporate.

Then we had a "hard" winter which killed it off, so I switched to field beans, and even with temps down to -18c last year, they came through and did a good job.

So, to get to the point.....What green cover...if any..do you use? :banghead:

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GlenPettit

Here in Michigan "Great Lakes State", Winter Rye is most common; plant it in October, it restarts growing anytime the sun shines through the snow, and again in April, but the Heat & warm days in May will kill it, then we plow it down and plant beans & corn to take advantage of all the extra nitrogen.

-- Buckwheat is also a common 'Green Manure' here.

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MaineDad

I'm with Glen - I use Winter Rye as a green manure. One nice thing about Winter Rye, is that it releases a chemical when tilled or plowed under that kills germinating weed seeds. It also will kill your veggie seeds so you should wait at least 3 weeks to plant after the Winter Rye is tilled or plowed under.

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farmer

Thanks for the replies,

I haven't seen Winter Rye before, it looks very heavy duty

(Cold tolerance) I did a little research, and some commented

That it was quite tough to kill off. But if I can source some seed

I might try a patch.

I visited your garden tractor site Micah, really good interesting stuff,

I see you did a Mrs Bean too, great fun for the kids,

Great beans on the plate. :banghead:

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