Cover Crop Contemplation
How do we turn our field into an inviting home for the 1,500+ transplants we’ve started in the greenhouse? Our field had a ryegrass cover crop over the winter. Ryegrass is great for cartwheels [see above], soil erosion protection, winter-long photosynthesis, nitrogen scavenging, and weed suppression. It is particularly good at weed suppression because it allelopathic (i.e., it produces chemicals that suppress the growth of other plants). Because of this property, we need to wait at least 2 weeks after…