06/15/2026
Time to crimp that sunn h**p again!
This is the first time in awhile that we have a successful enough stand of sunn h**p to crimp and plant into, which is something we’ve been experimenting with since we got a SARE grant three years ago. Today we crimped sunn h**p cover crop that was seeded in late April and will be planting winter squash into it in a few days. The idea is to have the stalks slowly decompose on the bed tops, creating a living mulch to help keep down w**ds. Summer w**d pressure is INTENSE out here, so we need a strategy that doesn’t involve too much labor and adds to the soil at the same time. We never plant into black plastic so this is an interesting alternative approach that can work great when it works.
