Best Early Spring Cover Crops. Ryegrass has been a favorite for spring cover planting but its dense root structure tends to survive tilling. Every five years or so you should dig up the root ball and divide it.
In the fall plant buckwheat 45 days before your first annual frost date. Once the cover crop has been mowed down to a low level we use a pick or mattock to create a small planting channel or furrow in the soil. Daikon oilseed and fodder radishes are deep-rooted semi-hardy cover crops that open subsoil hardpan scavenge and conserve soluble soil N and choke out weeds through rapid canopy closure and strongly allelopathic root exudates.
This cover crop is often overseeded into small grain.
Plant dormant crowns in early spring. Field peas include spring peas and Austrian winter peas the seeding rate of spring field peas is higher due to. Every five years or so you should dig up the root ball and divide it. Once the cover crop has been mowed down to a low level we use a pick or mattock to create a small planting channel or furrow in the soil.
