Cultivating / tilling some fields for overwinter cover crops 2026 скачать в хорошем качестве

Cultivating / tilling some fields for overwinter cover crops 2026

It’s autumn / fall here in Aotearoa New Zealand and we are cultivating / tilling some of our paddocks / fields up ready to sow an over winter cover crop of ryecorn (Secale cereale) and vetch (Vicia) either common or hairy. A number of these paddocks have been used by students for several seasons, so they need a rest, some have problem weeds like twitch / couch (Elymus repens) and the blasted comfrey. Rye and vetch are a great intercrop combination. The rye grows really high - about six foot / two meters and the vetch vines then climb up the rye blocking light at ground level suppressing weeds. I’m hoping that it will be thick enough that when the comfrey breaks dormancy in spring that there is so little light at ground it will kill the comfrey if we leave the cover crop until November when it starts to flower. I don’t want the vetch going to seed as it then can become a weed.