Growing the OM into the soil is the plan just thought of that and had to ask. The buckwheat did ok this year with the tiny bit of rain we did get and the rye about the same. I'm going to try and plant sun hemp too next year but I'm having a hard time finding it
I love carbon talk. Here's the short version.
OM isn't built above ground, it's built below ground. Oxygen and sunshine on soil are the things to reduce before you look to build, cause that's where your OM will exit. Don't till cause that's the biggest injection of oxygen and sunlight you can make.
Grow a big crop of rye to all the way to maturity, then spread a low carbon plant (beans, peas, annual clovers, chicory, brassicas, really anything other than cereals, corn, sorghum) into it and mow it down. Let your low carbon plant eat up your straw as quickly as possible, and then flip back to rye in the fall, and repeat until you never see dirt, and your top layer starts turning black.
If you can dig up the original throw and mow thread, Crimson tells an amazing story from start to finish.
Broadcast and terminate the same day. If I had the plot space and farm connections, I'd be planting bin run beans about 3-4 bushels/ac into that rye. Pray for the deer to wipe them out in time to overseed with rye again late summer early fall depending on your distance from the center pole.That is what i have been doing, over seeding in the fall with WR & red clover. Letting it grow and terminating the following spring.
Are you saying to over seed with the beans, clovers, brassica, etc. before you terminate the WR?
What bans ... soy beans?
How big is your plot?Soil wont support beans, it barely grew rye. I'm going to try a homemade irrigation system next year, though I doubt we will get 11 straight weeks of no rain again I want to have some form of water even if it's just out of a truck
This year I had 2 acres going to try and go to 5 next yearHow big is your plot?
[/URL]Man I would love to read that Throw & Mow thread, but I'm sure it's in the archives by now. LOL
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The Throw n’ Mow Method
Habitat forum under food plot subWhat page is the thread on? When I click the link, it says it is unavailable
Broadcast and terminate the same day. If I had the plot space and farm connections, I'd be planting bin run beans about 3-4 bushels/ac into that rye. Pray for the deer to wipe them out in time to overseed with rye again late summer early fall depending on your distance from the center pole.