Talk:Cover crop

Green Manure
I'm not sure that cover crop and green manure are synonymous, and if so, if green manure should be the main entry. As I understand it, a green manure is used to provide nutrients and/or organic matter, whereas cover crops can have other functions, such as winter protection. That would make green manures a type of, or subset of, cover crops???? Tsavage 15:21, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Reverted redirect to Green Manure
Following on my comment above, I've (re)separated cover crop and green manure. I believe the main meaning of green manure is a crop that adds to the soil (nutrients, organic matter). Cover crops can be grown for other reasons than that. Tsavage 03:22, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

This cover crop article needs discussion of Farmscaping, under Pest Management. The DrMcBug site is a good link to explore, though it is not a user friendly, site. Will comeback and contribute this information.--Jeanneharris 04:51, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Farmscaping - Definition: Deliberate use of specific plants and landscaping techniques to attract and conserve "Beneficials", i.e. beneficial organisms.

just wanna know
how the crop cover used in landscabing?

Notice also that this article doesn't actually say what a cover crop IS. The opening paragraph should say that, not just what a cover crop is USED for. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.184.133.246 (talk) 14:59, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Acknowledging the writers
It appears that Lastbushman largely wrote this article, although there's been content added since. OptimistBen (talk) 19:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

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Merge to cover crop or vice versa
These are essentially identical topics, which should redirect to one or the other depending on which is the more established (older or more complete) article, while merging non-redundant information. Whether cover crops are a subset of green manure or whichever is debatable, but there are key similarities (erosion/weed control, fertility management) which make these so linked as to be inextricable from one another. Apothecia (talk) 18:19, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

So, what the hell is a cover crop!?
What the hell is a cover crop? The article goes on about usages, but it never says what the hell one is. Is a cover crop the same thing as a crop?? Then why the hell the extra adjective? Fabrio2010 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:55, 7 September 2010 (UTC).

Excellent point. What is a cover crop? Or more succinctly, what process is it?--212.178.112.106 (talk) 11:15, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Missing link to deWikipedia
This article should link to deWikipedia "Zwischenfruchtanbau", but I do not know how to insert such a link. GR--Gr5959 (talk) 19:36, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

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How can I add a topic to this talk page? On my phone (Android) I can see an 'Add Topic' button at the top, but on my laptop (chrome OS) I can't see the button. keenuck (talk) 14:11, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Please add: Cover crop can grow at the same time
May I suggest that we add the following sentence at the end of the first paragraph:

Or they may grow at the same time as fruit and vegetable crops, forming an understorey.

This idea of a cover crop of perennial plants is also discussed in an article and book by George Monbiot.

I don't know how to insert a citation to the particular sentences about cover crops that are in the article. The sentences say as follows: ' On a farm in south Oxfordshire, techniques developed by a vegetable grower called Iain Tolhurst – Tolly – seem to have anticipated recent discoveries by soil scientists. ' ' Two of his innovations appear to be crucial. The first, as he puts it, is to “make the system watertight”: preventing rain from washing through the soil, taking the nutrients with it. What this means is ensuring the land is almost never left bare. Beneath his vegetables grows an understorey of “green manure”, plants that cover the soil. Under the leaves of his pumpkins, I could see thousands of tiny seedlings: the “weeds” he had deliberately sown. When the crops are harvested, the green manure fills the gap '

Monbiot's book discusses permanent cover crops using a related term, 'green manure'. In the index at the back of the book, this is mentioned as follows: ' Tolhurst, Iain (Tolly) [...] and green manure, [pages] 106–109, 110, 112 ' keenuck (talk) 14:24, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Images
I want to add some images inline to the topic to make the content more rich and understandable. Chidubem4real (talk) 11:09, 23 May 2023 (UTC)