Greenthumber
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Looking for ideas on a good cover crop that attracts predator bugs that has beneficial organic nutrients for the microbes and plant
Shasta daisy attracts beneficial species that feed on spider mites, such as pirate bugs and predatory mites.
Cilantro and Dill as companion plants repel mites and aphids.
Micro Clover is a great nitrogen fixing cover crop.
i look into predators before do they work well. i would rather smoke a little bug juice or eat one before i smoke poison
Pea in intercrop plots also displayed increased nodulation (27-45%) and symbiotic N₂ fixation (9-17%) leading to the addition of 60-78 kg N ha-¹. The GEP and NEP were highest in the 2:1 arrangement and led to the highest daytime C sequestration (229 mg C m-² hr-¹). I demonstrated that intercropping small grains with legumes, in specific spatial arrangements and under low input organic conditions, can counter conventional monoculture-associated SOC and N losses through higher land and ecosystem productivity, and greater organic N-fixation and transfer.