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Closest match: Vigna unguiculata cultivar Xiabao 2 chromosome LG9 Common name: Cowpea
Clay-Busting Plants to Fight Soil Compaction
If you're like me and struggle with clay soil, these 5 clay-busting plants will work through your heavy soil to loosen, aerate, and enrich it with organic matter. Use these annual plants as a cover crop or interplanted among your other crops.
1. Artichoke, Cynara scolymus
Artichokes grow deep, sturdy taproots that break through heavy clay soil. They also make a great plant to chop and drop as mulch and add lots of organic matter to benefit your soil. Artichokes come in both annual and perennial varieties, but short-season annual varieties will grow quickly and yield a harvest of edible flower buds from mid-summer to mid-fall. Harvest the buds and then chop and drop the entire plant in place, leaving the roots to decompose. Note: Artichokes are related to thistles and the plants are spiny so wear gloves when handling them!
2. Daikon Radish, Raphanus sativus
Daikon radish is an amazing clay-busting vegetable since they push up to 24 inches into the soil! Sow in spring, summer, or fall and harvest some for eating about 50 days later. Let the ones you don't harvest grow until they flower (the flowers attract beneficial insects!) and die back. Once they've died back just chop them off at ground level and let them break down. As your daikon radishes rot they break up the clay and build up humus!
3. Cowpea, Vigna unguiculata
Cowpeas or black-eyed peas have vigorous, dense, fibrous roots that work to break up your clay soil. They're also nitrogen fixers and enrich the soil! Sow in the spring as a summer cover crop. Cowpea's quick growth helps suppress weeds and the flowers attract beneficial insects! If you want to eat your cowpeas (you can harvest them fresh like green beans or let the pods dry to harvest them for soup beans) cut them back in the fall and let them break down. If you want to grow cowpeas for maximum soil benefits through root growth and nitrogen content, cut the plants back while they're still flowering and before they set pods. Or do some of both!
4. Mustard, Brassica spp.
Mustard is a superstar for clay-busting thanks to it's massive, fibrous root system. Mustard also produces TONS of biomass, making it a great chop and drop green manure/mulch. It also helps to suppress soil-borne pathogens! The leaves, flowers, and seeds are edible and chickens love it too. *If you don't want mustard spreading, timing is super important because it will disperse vigorously if you allow it to go to seed. Cut mustard back before it seeds, while it's still flowering and incorporate the plant matter into the soil. Mustard also has an allelopathic effect so wait about 3 weeks after chopping to plant new crops in it's place.
5. Sunflower, Helianthus spp.
Even cheery sunflowers will bust up your clay soil! They make a great cover crop especially when you choose varieties native to your area that don't need to be staked, they'll grow deep vigorous roots into compacted soils. Annual and perennial sunflowers attract HUNDREDS of varieties of insects and are a great choice for both the maintained garden and natural areas. Cut the plants back in the winter, leaving the roots to decompose in the soil. Sunflowers have an allelopathic effect so it's important to let them decompose over the winter before you plant in spring.
What else can you do to bust up clay?
Broadfork: The broadfork is a great tool for hand tilling (and much more gentle than regular tilling). Use the broadfork when the soil is dry and work backwards so you don't step on and re-compact the loosened soil.
Digging Fork: The digging fork is great for long term maintenance of your clay soil. Use it to poke holes in the garden to help aerate the soil every spring and fall.
Soil Amendments: Once the soil is loosened up, add soil amendments so the rain can wash them in. Lots of organic matter is needed for clay soils: compost, green manure, leaf mold, biochar, and worm casings are all good options to consider!
Cover Crop or Mulch: Bare clay soil = compaction. After you've loosened the soil and added soil amendments, keep that beautiful soil covered! Sow your crops or add shredded leaves, alfalfa hay, or straw (just make sure it's not contaminated by herbicide!!) as mulch.
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Today the kids are over, this wasn’t planned but another day is wasted. Have at least a sketch of Link (Cowpea, from my War!AU) fully embracing his role as Wisdom’s bearer and Link (Sink, from Father of Courage)being ‘put at his place’. Me and Salty Saph shitposting, basically.
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Whippoorwill Southern Pea now available at trueloveseeds.com! This pea is creamy and delicious! This variety is super prolific, even in Truelove Seeds grower Chelsea Askew's sandy soils of Virginia. Chelsea eats these peas with greens and cornbread on New Years Day and loves their flavor and texture. This smaller-seeded variety is vining and will climb your corn, but won't pull it down. In a report published in 1912 by the United States Department of Agriculture, Whippoorwill (also known as "Shinney Pea") was in the top 5 most popular and most widely grown southern peas in the United States. Thomas Jefferson grew Whippoorwill at Monticello. Since the 1990s, Whipporwill has seen a revival, and was nominated by the Slow Food Ark of Taste Committee for the US South as an endangered and culturally important variety. Of course, this species was brought from West Africa, which is its center of genetic diversity, likely where it was first domesticated, and where it is still most widely grown. Thanks to @chelskew for your dedication to preserving southern and Appalachian crops, for these seeds, and for the last two photos! #whippoorwill #whippoorwillsouthernpeas #whippoorwillcowpea #vignaunguiculata #cowpea #southernpea #arkoftaste #slowfoodarkoftaste https://www.instagram.com/p/BtGocuLlzLa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5m1p2kkl564f
I love chatting with @salty-saph and have our Links interact/be good buddies even if they don’t get along at all (on surface). Those are Cowpea from my sidlink War Au and her Sink from father of courage (I love that fic!).
I know in my au Link doesn’t drink but that’s beside the point.
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) is regarded as one of the most important and strategic food crops in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, with a national average grain yield of 366 kg ha⁻¹ and approximately 1,000 kg ha⁻¹ in the state of Pará, particularly in the Bragantina region. In recent years, cowpea cultivars with high yield potential have been released. The introduction and evaluation of new lines and cultivars, aiming to identify superior genetic materials in terms of grain yield and market acceptance, have been widely adopted by cowpea producers. This study aimed to evaluate the agronomic performance of 12 lines and five cultivars of cowpea with erect and semi-erect growth habits, in order to identify genotypes suitable for recommendation for cultivation in the Bragantina region, in the state of Pará. The experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design, comprising 17 treatments and four replications. Grain yield data were subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA), and means were compared using Tukey’s test at the 5% probability level. Statistical analyses were performed using Sisvar software, version 5.6 (2015). In the 2013 growing season, the line MNCO4-795f-153 stood out, with a grain yield of 1,523 kg ha⁻¹. In 2014, as well as in the combined analysis of both years, the line MNCO4-769f-62 exhibited superior performance, with mean yields of 1,295 and 1,401 kg ha⁻¹, respectively. Overall, the results indicate that the 17 evaluated cowpea genotypes exhibited high yield potential, exceeding 1,000 kg ha⁻¹, and can be recommended for cultivation under the edaphoclimatic conditions of the Bragança region, in the state of Pará.
