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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 953178" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>I put a mix of tritacale,oat, two or three peas, and vetch under my walnuts this last winter. That soil is completely different this year. I had major compaction issues going on and that solved it. In fact it worked so well I had a hard time getting water across the whole thing. The trees look a little healthier as well but I won't be able to tell if it helped production until next year as the trees decided what this years crop would be before I planted the cover crop.</p><p>An interesting side note: I incorporated the crop into the soil at about fifty percent bloom on the vetch and the peas had already bloomed. I had green lacewings and lady beetles BOILING out of there. I have a block of citrus and a block of pecans across the road from those walnuts and neither of them had to be sprayed for any thrip, aphid, scale, nothing. I also never sprayed for walnut husk fly and I'm one of very few growers who din't have a problem with them this year. Now I'm toying with adding flowering crops into my IPM program at specefic times just to boost my beneficial insect populations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 953178, member: 14661"] I put a mix of tritacale,oat, two or three peas, and vetch under my walnuts this last winter. That soil is completely different this year. I had major compaction issues going on and that solved it. In fact it worked so well I had a hard time getting water across the whole thing. The trees look a little healthier as well but I won't be able to tell if it helped production until next year as the trees decided what this years crop would be before I planted the cover crop. An interesting side note: I incorporated the crop into the soil at about fifty percent bloom on the vetch and the peas had already bloomed. I had green lacewings and lady beetles BOILING out of there. I have a block of citrus and a block of pecans across the road from those walnuts and neither of them had to be sprayed for any thrip, aphid, scale, nothing. I also never sprayed for walnut husk fly and I'm one of very few growers who din't have a problem with them this year. Now I'm toying with adding flowering crops into my IPM program at specefic times just to boost my beneficial insect populations. [/QUOTE]
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