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0Seek Dry Season Cover Crop in Central Mexico
To find a cover crop that can be sown with two month old corn plants and live to survive the dry winter on the Central Mexican Volcanic Plateau.
Challenge Guidelines
Minimal or no reduction of corn yield. Value (other than green manure)
What this challenge offers to the winner
Two weeks free room & board at our home in Puebla!
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TweetCurrent Solutions
- 2 solutions found and proven posted by Jeffrey Hodgins
- Living mulch posted by Craig Canale
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Richard Halpern: Gracias por acompañarnos EcoApprentice! Our first EcoChallenge from Mexico!
Caitlin Hale: Perhaps use winter rye and/or hairy vetches? More information by both: http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/factsheets/winterrye.html http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/vetch.html Hope this was of help!