Farmers and their Innovative Cover Cropping Techniques [DVD]. V. Grubinger. 2006. University of Vermont Extension. Available for purchase from: http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/Videos/covercropvideo.html Featuring Lou Johns and Robin Ostfeld, Blue Heron Farm. Lodi, NY.
this would then feed the next crop.
palui 2 years ago
remember that nitrogen fixation is only supplying nitrogen to the legume during the legume's life cycle, not neighboring crops. in other words, there is little if at all any leaching of nitrogen from the legume into the soil from the nodules. the only way to put that nitrogen that was fixed into the soil is to incorporate the legume's biomass into the soil.
palui 2 years ago