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SOME NO-TILL GARDENING

SOME NO-TILL GARDENING. By Partnership Employees. Here’s Cathryn Flint (the bunny rabbit). Checking out the small grain/clover winter cover crop of daddy-rabbit, Matt Then, an April scene of the garden No-till for the past 3 years Cover was “rolled down”. A “slam dunk”

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SOME NO-TILL GARDENING

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  1. SOME NO-TILL GARDENING By Partnership Employees

  2. Here’s Cathryn Flint(the bunny rabbit) • Checking out the small grain/clover winter cover crop of daddy-rabbit, Matt • Then, an April scene of the garden • No-till for the past 3 years • Cover was “rolled down”. A “slam dunk” • Great weed control, no crusting, no runoff ! • Cover grew more for later plantings of melons and eggplant

  3. CHARLES WALLACE, SCT, retired long, long ago, Lincoln Co. • Good variety of vegetables • Looks like no weeds to pull ! ! • Note the close-up of lettuce—bet he doesn’t need to wash off any sand ! • Thanks to Elton Barbour for these pictures.

  4. LLOYD PHILLIPSDavidsonCounty • Small grain for mulch, copious amounts • Cucumber, pepper surrounded by protective ground cover • Bet the SCI is pretty good here! • He prepared a “how to” on no-till gardening for his clients.

  5. BRIAN WOODCherokee County • Uses rye/crimson clover for cover crop • Rakes cover back, makes small furrow with hoe • Applies lime, fertilizer at planting • Note that he has cool-season crops, too. • Goes bear hunting with a switch!

  6. ROY MATHISWilkes County • Lots of different vegetables • Uses leaves for ground cover • Threw in a conventional till slide for contrast—note cloddy condition • Cites many advantages of no-till • Being a soil scientist on the soil quality team, could not resist digging to show the contrast!

  7. MARK and KAYLA HUDSONJackson, Swain Counties • A little different approach - - • Grass clippings and recycled, shredded paper for ground cover—looks like it works just fine, huh? • No-tilled for about 6 years • No weeding needed-no herbicides used • See contrast soil profiles, ten feet apart. Left, garden- right, lawn of 18 years! • Then, note the earthworms. Several people noted earthworm populations moved in !

  8. MIKE HINTONState Office • Big variety of vegetables, including sweet potatoes—second slide following this • Good-looking ground cover of rye—actually, all who use a cover crop have gotten the word—let it get big enough before you zap it ! • That’s his basket of goodies in the title slide. Good job! (Maybe he’ll bring in a watermelon one day.)

  9. Talk about convenient ! !

  10. Finally, your Agronomist • Irish potato and triticale mature together-no burndown needed • 2nd slide, about 13 years ago—then, deer got peas, butterbeans, and watermelon—raccoons got the corn, so he said @#$%^&* with it !! • 3rd slide is slice of Cecil SL, after 20 years no-till and annual additions of about 5,000 lbs/ac biomass. • Last photo—Proper use of disc !

  11. A BIG THANK YOU - - • To these who took time to share their pictures and information. • No doubt there are others who are doing just as well, but are spending their saved time at the lake instead of taking pictures, and, • Maybe others of you would like to give it a try—I’ll bet these good folks would share their knowledge.

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