Pest & Selection
Best known pest suppressors.
What are African Marigolds?
Larger seeds used for improved soil.
What are Fava beans or Peas?
When to plant soil improving crops?
What is convenient?
These crop characteristics are the same for all soil improving plants.
What are germinate, grow quickly, biomass in short time, grow in poor soils, long lived seeds and fix nitrogen?
There are three deep rooted crops suggested in the table (chart).
African Marigolds are used to eliminate these specific pests.
What are Nematodes?
Crops have to reach a minimum size to survive cold weather.
What is planting as early as possible?
Crops grow for this amount of time for the maximum benefit they give.
WHat is as long as possible?
Easily grown from seed, but slow to get established.
What is Alfalfa?
Crop used in dry soil.
What is Alfalfa?
Clover, Mustard, and Buckwheat provide foods for these to suppress pests.
What are predatory insects
Waiting too long to plant this crop means they wont fix nitrogen until spring.
What are legumes?
The time farmers know when to plow in a cover crop.
What is 100% bloom?
This legume doesn't produce large amounts of biomass but fixes nitrogen in cool weather.
What are Austrian Field Peas?
Use 1 oz seed/100 square feet of space.
What are Marigolds?
Farmers do this when they don't have seeds for soil improving crops.
What is use weeds?
Best way to get this crop to grow before winter starts in, is to sow underneath standing crop.
What is clover?
Highly carbonaceous crops take a long time break down. causing two effects.
What are delay planting and rob nitrogen?
Buckwheat, Chicory, Comfrey, Hemp, Barley, Oats, Wheat and Rye are in this category.
This crop can be planted from March to October.
What is Barley?
Farmers use nitrogen fixers, deep root crop and abundant organic matter.
What are different crops grown together for benefits?
Provides a farmer to draw upon a wider variety of soil improving plants.
What is growing in warmer months?
Incorporating or digging in will produce these two essential effects.
What is conserves nutrients and stimulates organisms?
This crop likes heavy soil and either neutral or alkaline soils.
What is Winter Vetch?
Crop that can be Illegal.
What is Hemp?