RE: air temperature/cover crops
- Subject: RE: air temperature/cover crops
- From: "Bob Troy" r*@socal.rr.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:19:49 -0800
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
I'll second that ......... Experienced that one first hand!
May still be time to cut, rototill and plant another crop?
Maybe Annual Rye?
Bob
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From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Mike and Vickie Brock
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:00 AM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: air temperature/cover crops
on 1/22/04 8:36 AM, Kathie Morgan at fishrap@earthlink.net wrote:
> Hey, my fellow Californians! Can you recommend a good sun blocker for
> this time of year? Sposed to be 62 degrees again today.
>
> I have a kind of blend of grasses, vetch, and other weedy stuff
growing
> in the patch at present. Should I allow it to grow until rototilling
> time or whack it back now?
> Thanks!
> Kathie
>
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Kathie I would mow it as if it gets too long it will wrap around the
tines
of the roto-tiller. You probably would have to mow it a few times till
April.
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