Cover Crops
Cover crops are one of the most useful tools for managing intensive vegetable growing soils. The integration of cover crops into vegetable production can improve soil health by building soil structure and condition, reducing erosion, adding nitrogen, improving nutrient recycling, and contributing to weed and soil-borne disease control.
The project, Optimising cover cropping for the Australian vegetable industry (VG16068), ran from July 2017 to 2020, involving both research and delivery activities. The field research generated new information on the use and agronomy of cover crops to manage soil structure, soil microbial communities, specific beneficial microbes and soil-borne diseases under Australian conditions.
For more information contact
Dr Kelvin Montagu, Applied Horticultural Research Pty Ltd
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