Скачать или смотреть UMass Research Update: Planting Garlic into Standing Cover Crops with Alexa Smychkovich

This workshop presents an alternative method of growing garlic in the Northeast, intended to increase sustainability, reduce off-farm inputs, and build soil health by planting garlic into annual cover crops. Results from the first year of field experiments will be discussed, including impacts of cover crops on garlic yield, nutritional quality, and nitrogen use efficiency. Additionally, the spring decomposition and nutrient release trends of fall planted oat, forage radish, and winter pea will be presented, and implications for other crops explored. Funding for this project was provided by the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR).

Alexa Smychkovich is a PhD Candidate at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, UMass Amherst.

Recorded January 14, 2023

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