Thanks Dorothy Have you consider planting low growing plants i.e. clover, Dutch, strawberry clover. yellow clover, yarrow and other plants growing less than 12 inches ? Do you think that it would be beneficial for your orchard to have low growing grasses and flowers between the row's ??
Per Garp/NH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 09:53 AM Subject: Re: grasses > Per-- > > My soil tests show that I am low in N, so I seeded > cereal rye and hairy vetch in the aisles, not between > the vines, this fall. The idea behind the rye is that > the decomposing roots inhibit weed seed germination. > Also, it produces lots of organic matter. > > The vetch fixes N. > > One problem is that it was so dry here for all of > September that my vetch has just now germinated. My > recollection from a lecture last year at the Upper > Midwest Organic Farming conf is that in order to get > really good N fixing from the hairy vetch, you should > seed in August. The other thing the lecturer > mentioned is that vetch is a 1-year wonder. For some > reason the N from the vetch only lasts 1 year. > > I know others use white Dutch clover for N. It's a > low grower. > > I've also considered planting garlic seed between my > vines to discourage insects hungry for grape leaves. > Haven't tried it yet tho. > > Dorothy > --- COYOTEHILLFARM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hallo > > > > Can you recommend lowgrowing grasses or other plants > > to improve the grapes > > growing ability to produce ? > > > > Per Garp/NH > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > http://faith.yahoo.com >
