Cover Crops

What do you do to improve soil structure, soil fertility and over all health. Cover crops! Cover crops are important for the homesteader, farmer and backyard gardener. In a post collapse society those that have the knowledge will have a valuable key to food production. Cover crops improve soil nitrogen content, soil carbon content and organic matter. Certain cover crops can also keep root knott nematodes at bay and from attacking your plants.
So when your not growing in a field or in a bed you should be planting and growing cover crops, you can also grow cover crops before you even start planting a field or bed to help kick it up and improve it. Also saving your cover crop seeds for continual years of usage. You can use buckwheat, vetch, clover, rye grass, and even certain peas as a cover crop. Do your research and also remember to rotate your cover crops from year to year to help your soil even more.



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Here is a list of places to get seed.

http://www.dkseeds.com/

http://www.seedsofchange.com/productcategory.aspx?c=716

https://www.horizonherbs.com/group.asp?grp=3

http://greencoverseed.com/

http://www.highmowingseeds.com/organic-cover-crop-seeds.html

http://www.territorialseed.com/category/cover_crops

 http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Acover%20crop%20seeds

http://sustainableseedco.com/compost-cover-crops/