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crops for enhancing soil
SARE.org: covercrops
YouTube vid on Sunn Hemp to improve soil.
more Sunn Hemp info
I had an old rice field that was so badly clay-panned from years of overashing that it was still waterlogged after four months without rain, only rank grass would grow there. Compost and weeds fixed it. I cleared it and sowed a lot of wild sunnhemp seeds, and compost gave them a start.
The best crop of weeds in the valley
Those deep roots went down right through the pan. The villagers thought I was crazy -- I had the best crop of weeds in the valley. But sunnhemp's good fodder for livestock, and good compost material, and it's a legume so it fixed lots of nitrogen in the soil. You could grow anything in that field after that."
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Green manures PDF: Sort Out Your Soil
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Kudzu
The guy in this vid says the use of kudzu changed the way he gardens....
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Comfrey
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Comfrey is a fantastic resource for organic gardeners; incredibly hardy, quite shade tolerant, and excellent at scavenging nutrients from deep down in the soil and producing large amounts of top growth that you can cut several times per season. You can mulch with it, compost it, but probably the best single use is rotted into a liquid plant food ideal for tomatoes and many other high value crops.
The Basics of Comfrey Propagation by Root Cuttings
Comfrey, it's Uses and a Comfrey Poultice Demonstration
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trees for nitrogen and permaculture
Needle Bush?
Floral extract from this plant used in perfumery.
Silverberry [Elaeagnus]
white leadtree [Leucaena leucocephala]
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Re: crops for enhancing soil
List of dynamic accumulators
*Amaranthus Retroflexus
Bee Balm (Monarda spp.) (p)
*Borage
Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) (p)
*Chickweed (Stellaria media) (p)
*Chicory (forage feast)
*Cleavers (Galium aparine)
*Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum) (p)
*Garden Cress
*Corn Salad
*Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale var sativa) (p)
*Lamb’s Quarters
*Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) (p)
*Miner’s Lettuce
*stinging nettle (p)
*Plantago major (p)
*Salad Burnet (p)
Hairy Vetch
*Yarrow (p)
* = human edible
(p) = perennial
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pedogenesis guild
In this vid Matt Powers suggests a 4-plant guild for building soil:
- elephant grass/sorgum
- radish
- buckwheat
- beans
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