catch crop

Or, a catch crop can be planted between the spring harvest and fall planting of some crops.

Radishes: best sown little and often as a catch crop among other vegetables.

Another option for cultural control is the use of trap crops or catch crops.

Catch cropping is a type of succession planting.

In the North and West it may not be worth while sowing a catch crop after a late harvest, particularly if the ground is wet.

Catch crops and green manures as biological tools in nitrogen management in temperate zones.

One is sow or plant a quick catch crop between the rows of your newly-planted brassicas.

Catch crops should be sown after minimal cultivation of the stubble as soon as the harvest is cleared.

Nitrogen conserving potential of successive ryegrass catch crops in continuous spring barley.

Catch crops are also crops that are sown to prevent minerals being flushed away from the soil.

Forage catch crops include rye, oats, rape, turnips, and Italian (annual) rye-grass.

Careful planning is essential, and remember that production from a small plot can be more than doubled by intercropping and catch cropping.

Catch crops allow parasitism but are destroyed before the parasitic plant flowers, so the broomrape seeds cannot be produced and dispersed.

Grass leys, grazing catch crops, and crops grown to plough in as green manure all enhance fertility.

In a late spring, the catch crop may not be ready to graze off in time to prepare a good tilth for the ensuing main crop.

In agriculture, a catch crop is a fast-growing crop that is grown simultaneously with, or between successive plantings of a main crop.

Catch crops are typically fast-growing annual cereal species adapted to scavenge available nitrogen efficiently from the soil (Ditsch and Alley 1991).

Small, quick-maturing lettuces like 'Tom Thumb' or 'Little Gem'are suitable for catch cropping as are radishes.

This means that salad crops are excellent subjects for catch cropping in space that will later be taken up as the autumn and winter crops grow to their mature sizes.

With the growing popularity of small-scale wild-flower meadows, I resolved to steal an idea directly from conventional horticulture and harvest a catch crop of seed before cutting the hay.

Catch crops are usually sown in late summer or early autumn immediately after harvest, for grazing in early winter and again in the spring before ploughing for the next main crop.

As well as bringing nitrogen into agroecosystems through biological nitrogen fixation, types of cover crops known as "catch crops" are used to retain and recycle soil nitrogen already present.

The nitrogen tied up in catch crop biomass is released back into the soil once the catch crop is incorporated as a green manure or otherwise begins to decompose.

Hay making needs a week of dry weather but the clever bit about seed harvesting is that the grass needs only to be touch-dry, so it is an ideal catch crop for a damp climate.

As rye will grow in very cold conditions, it is probably the best catch crop for autumn and spring grazing, For this purpose it is autumn sown after wheat or barley and before roots.