How To Use Green manure In A Sentence
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For her fiftieth birthday Don built Rebecca a chicken tractor - a long wire enclosure on wheels that enables her to graze chickens along the rows of green manure forage.
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When used as a winter cover crop or a green manure crop, it should be seeded in early September.
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A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
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Some green manures, legumes such as lucerne and field beans, also have the ability to take nitrogen from the air and fix it into nodules in their roots.
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Often grown for use as a green manure (about 12 tons per hectare), its stalks are sources of fiber and fuel, and the seeds yield a galactomannan gum that can be used for sizing and stabilizing purposes.
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A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
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He uses cow manure, green manure and crop rotation to ensure nutrient-rich soil for his rapeseed crop.
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Green manures such as rye and oats are often planted in the fall after the crops have been harvested.
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I had a go at growing lablab as a green manure crop for my bananas, but they basically hardly grow here at all due to our lack of summer heat.
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A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
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His crops have been growing on green manures or simple techniques like rotating them every other year, and yet he has been able to maximise his production on the 14-hectare piece of land.
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Diversifying the rotation and growing fall-seeded and green manure crops are techniques commonly used to break pest cycles and improve soils in stockless organic systems.
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Its main uses are as a forage crop for feeding cattle and as a green manure.
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This green manure crop should then be disced in by April 15 of the following spring, with subsequent shallow cultivations at about six-week intervals through the growing season.
Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
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An alternative to digging in the green manure in spring is to cut and add the material to the compost heap.
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A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
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Although it is somewhat easier to secure a stand of this clover, alsike does not grow rank enough to make a good cover or green manure crop.
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Green manure crops such as alfalfa and mustard are widely used in organic gardening.
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Normally, my green manures are alfalfa and I grow them under the nurse crop, and when we cut that nurse crop in the fall the alfalfa can grow if there are fall rains.
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Including a green manure crop such as mucuna in the minor season did not result in better performance of maize than of second season cowpea, but did have a pronounced residual effect on the succeeding maize crop.
1. Soil constraints on sustainable plant production in the tropics.
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Green manures are another source of organic matter and plant nutrients.
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That provides much more scope for cultivating and planting up the vacated bed before autumn, and while there's no solid plan evolved yet we're thinking around spuds and a good over-wintering green manure such as grazing rye, phacelia or winter tares.
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Pigeonpea is nodulated with Rhizabium of the cowpea type and is an effective green manure crop.
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The approach recommended was a blend of the new and the old: pest management using natural predators, intercropping agroforestry, silviculture and green manure.
Andrew Gunther: We Can Feed the World Sustainably, Humanely
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A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
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Normally, my green manures are alfalfa and I grow them under the nurse crop, and when we cut that nurse crop in the fall the alfalfa can grow if there are fall rains.
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The green manures were incorporated in situ 60 DE by a tractor-mounted rototiller and by a power tiller-drawn mouldboard plough in
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia.
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Green manure crops and crop rotations involving legumes also provide farmers with an additional source of plant nutrients.
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The approach recommended was a blend of the new and the old: pest management using natural predators, intercropping agroforestry, silviculture and green manure.
Andrew Gunther: We Can Feed the World Sustainably, Humanely
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- Use of cowdung and green manure reduces the expense of mineral fertilizer, improves the soil and increases the yields;
5.1 Meaning and objectives of a permanent farming system
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Green manure crops such as alfalfa and mustard are widely used in organic gardening.
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With their rapid growth and prolific nodulation, all erythrinas are a good source of organic matter for green manure.
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