Count cover crop as part of rotation

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Posted by QBush 6, NE MA (My Page) on

Wed, Sep 10, 14 at 14:10

If I put out a cover crop fall or spring, how do I count the crop rotation? I usually use legumes, field peas, buckwheat, and fava beans. I have also used daikon, and hakuri turnips that got to large to eat. I only have a rototiller to incorporate, so taller crops seem impractical to me.

So, if I put field peas on the spring broccoli bed do the peas count as a "rotation" or should I avoid brassica there next year?

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Posted by Peter1142 none (My Page) on
Wed, Sep 10, 14 at 15:04

No that doesn't count... won't do anything for pests or pathogens overwintering in the soil.

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