Trifolium resupinatum ‘Gorby’
- Persian clover is an annual clover with delicate pink flowers.
- Excellent forage plant, cover crop, and honey plant.
- As a cover crop, it is grown to improve soil fertility; its strong roots loosen the soil, and it also provides strong competition against weeds.
- As a leguminous crop, thanks to the nodule bacteria in its root nodules, it fixes atmospheric nitrogen and thus naturally enriches the soil with nitrogen.
- Very good honey plant.
- During flowering, it spreads an exceptionally strong honey scent that attracts a large number of bees.
- Additionally, the plant blooms for a long time.
- Honey productivity: 150-200 kg/ha.
- 1 kg is sufficient for sowing 1000 m².
The cultivation of catch crops has different purposes.
- Catch crops improve soil fertility, reduce nutrient leaching, prevent weeds from growing, improve soil structure, and reduce soil-borne diseases.
- When grown as green manure, catch crops add nutrients to the soil.
- Combined use is also possible – plants grown as a cover crop are introduced into the soil as a green fertilizer.
- Catch crops help to maintain soil health and reduce the spread of pests without chemical control.
How to grow catch crops
- If the main crop – strawberry, cabbage, potatoes or whatever plant you mainly grew – has borne fruit and been picked up, sow a catch crop.
- It is necessary to sow tightly so that a large biomass is formed.
- For better germination, sowing can be covered with a covering veil.
- The catch crop remains on the bed for the winter, he does not need to be picked up from the bed.
- Dig in the catch crop before sowing the next main crop or cover with compost or soil.
- This is how natural green fertilizer is formed from the catch crop.
- A wintering catch crop is dug in, which would begin to grow again in the spring.
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