February Cover Crops


Above is a picture of our farm from last weekend. In the left row are dead pepper plants, with no cover crop planted. On the right, you might be able to see dead eggplants, but the main thing you can see is dead radishes, which we planted in the fall. The eggplants were quite pest infested and so the radishes were able to grow well for a good amount of time before the freezes killed them. In the left pic below, you can see dead peppers further down. Here, just to try it out, we scattered some rye and then surface-hoed a bit. It came up kindof sporadically, compared to the rye in the picture at right. We'll see how each looks when we cut it.