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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5419029" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Absolutely!!! You want to plant a summer crop in poor soils for 3 main reasons... #1 to produce as much biomass as possible. All that biomass sequesters nutrients ( often from deep in the soil through roots). Those sequestered nutrients then get put right back into the top layer after you bushhog or it decays naturally.</p><p></p><p>#2- a dense summer crop of something fast growing chokes out and suppresses weed growth, leading to a better stand for fall.</p><p></p><p>#3- the dense summer crop when laid down on top of the soil helps the soil retain moisture and reduce soil erosion... same reason you see landscapers put down straw over the top of newly sewn grass seed.</p><p></p><p>You arent feeding the deer with the summer crop... they usually have plenty of natural browse that time of the year. The summer crop is for the 3 reasons above.</p><p></p><p>I've got a half inch layer of humus on top of several if my plots at this point, despite this only being my 3rd years of planting these new areas. And the fall plots are just getting better and better every year (when I get normal rainfall amounts)</p><p></p><p>I posted a couple weeks before, but here's one of my summer plots in sorgham and millet.... deer eat neither (except for the mature seed heads), but this is giving me a ton of biomass, root systems aerating the soils, and the plot is virtually weed free</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5419029, member: 2805"] Absolutely!!! You want to plant a summer crop in poor soils for 3 main reasons... #1 to produce as much biomass as possible. All that biomass sequesters nutrients ( often from deep in the soil through roots). Those sequestered nutrients then get put right back into the top layer after you bushhog or it decays naturally. #2- a dense summer crop of something fast growing chokes out and suppresses weed growth, leading to a better stand for fall. #3- the dense summer crop when laid down on top of the soil helps the soil retain moisture and reduce soil erosion... same reason you see landscapers put down straw over the top of newly sewn grass seed. You arent feeding the deer with the summer crop... they usually have plenty of natural browse that time of the year. The summer crop is for the 3 reasons above. I've got a half inch layer of humus on top of several if my plots at this point, despite this only being my 3rd years of planting these new areas. And the fall plots are just getting better and better every year (when I get normal rainfall amounts) I posted a couple weeks before, but here's one of my summer plots in sorgham and millet.... deer eat neither (except for the mature seed heads), but this is giving me a ton of biomass, root systems aerating the soils, and the plot is virtually weed free [/QUOTE]
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