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Fixing Texas clay soil with cover crops! . We've used 3 different types of cover crops @the.teaching.garden to improve the native soil which is mostly clay and rocks! . We sowed Winter Rye and Crimson Clover from @growhoss in the fall and let them go until February when we terminated them. We also grew a bartender radish which behaved much like a tillage radish which is great for breaking up the clay! But the area that we grew Rye in specifically had issues with soil erosion and drainage problem

Firstly, I think it’s great that so many farmers are using these types of cover crops, and that many are enjoying them, and seeing benefits to their farms from them. But are they a sustainable practice as applied in their current form? Governments have a habit of being unreliable, and change policy often, particularly this current lot. Farms take YEARS, even DECADES, to plan. Should that money be trusted? I don’t know the answer to that question, but I do think that techniques such as cover crop