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    Default Answered: Cover crop - when to sow?

    I am just planning ahead here... but I would like to know at what point do I sow the cover crop seeds?

    Say I had a popped seed that is ready to come out from the wet paper towel.

    Do I sow after the seedling is established?

    Or, do I prepare a pot that is "cover cropped", ready to take a newly popped canna seed, and once the seedling is big enough, just put that into the pot, obviously root first?

    Sowing the cover crop after the seedling has established makes sense, but in the wild seeds fall to the ground that has other vegetation anyway. So is there is "right" way to do it, or does it not matter? Thanks.
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  2. "Straight away, that’s when I do.’remembervits all symbiotic
    Meaning when I plant the canna seed unless it’s going into a old pot where I’ll usually have a cover crop in all ready
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    Sorry can't help you here, and I'm being a lazy sod.. what's the whole idea behind the cover crops? Seeing more and more of you guys do it but don't have a clue why

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    Straight away, that’s when I do.’remembervits all symbiotic
    Meaning when I plant the canna seed unless it’s going into a old pot where I’ll usually have a cover crop in all ready
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    Quote Originally Posted by Amnesia auto View Post
    Sorry can't help you here, and I'm being a lazy sod.. what's the whole idea behind the cover crops? Seeing more and more of you guys do it but don't have a clue why

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    They seem to think it takes out some of the heat from the soil, but I think it would be easer to just soak your pot real good with water, let dry, and then plant, it seems to me that is how I dealt with hot soil in the past, when I was face with it. JMO

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    Quote Originally Posted by hotshot View Post
    They seem to think it takes out some of the heat from the soil, but I think it would be easer to just soak your pot real good with water, let dry, and then plant, it seems to me that is how I dealt with hot soil in the past, when I was face with it. JMO
    I see.. Yeah I'd probably just get a lower EC soil to be fair if i was having them issues, id be more worried about the enviroment its creating for bugs more than anything

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    Thanks, Redz!

    Quote Originally Posted by Amnesia auto View Post
    Sorry can't help you here, and I'm being a lazy sod.. what's the whole idea behind the cover crops? Seeing more and more of you guys do it but don't have a clue why
    You know how legumes, i.e. beans and peas, have nodes in their roots that contain nitrogen fixing bacteria, which enrich the soil with nitrogen from air? Middle school biology, right? Clover can do the same trick so (for my case) I want to be able to put less nutes in, in short. There are other plant species that can do their own tricks and together they maintain the soil. They are often called green manure. This is about all that I know.

    There are geeky studies that show that plants communicate to each other. If one plant is attacked, they tell other plants and those unaffected "help" the damaged plant. Long story short, I want these cover crop to help sustain the health of the main plant.

    It's my first time doing it, and that is about all I know.

    I will also be sowing French marigolds for their stench as a pest deterrant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valentina View Post
    Thanks, Redz!



    You know how legumes, i.e. beans and peas, have nodes in their roots that contain nitrogen fixing bacteria, which enrich the soil with nitrogen from air? Middle school biology, right? Clover can do the same trick so (for my case) I want to be able to put less nutes in, in short. There are other plant species that can do their own tricks and together they maintain the soil. They are often called green manure. This is about all that I know.

    There are geeky studies that show that plants communicate to each other. If one plant is attacked, they tell other plants and those unaffected "help" the damaged plant. Long story short, I want these cover crop to help sustain the health of the main plant.

    It's my first time doing it, and that is about all I know.

    I will also be sowing French marigolds for their stench as a pest deterrant.
    That’s the beauty of cover crops, you can use different types to achieve different things for the plant and more importantly the soil.

    It’s 100% true that plants communicate, for microbes and other plants.
    Fir a great read look for a book called WHAT A PLANT KNOWS.

    Great idea on the marigolds and my favourite is chrysanthemums and look what they produce !!
    Good luck val
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    I found this article very interesting, you might want to give it A read yourself.

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    I found this helpful too!!
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    I sow a few weeks before so that I can mulch the first cover and sow a second.

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