Crop cover for vegetable garden use for Grass?

xxnonamexx

6 years ago

This is the first time I used crop cover for my vegetable garden. I was curious can you use this for your lawn?

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
6 years ago
Only if you no longer want a lawn!! Cover crops - green manure - are intended to be worked into the soil in spring to decompose and add nutrients (as well as to prevent 'weeds' from taking over the bare soil). You can't do that with a cover crop planted into a lawn - you can mow but you can't easily remove or till in. They could eventually shade out or outcompete any turf grass.

So what exactly would be the point? Why do you think your lawn would benefit from this?
digdirt2
6 years ago
"Crop cover"?

Clarify please. Do you mean you planted one of the many green manure (aka cover crops) in the beds? Or do you mean you used some sort of protective fabric cover? I can't see a role for either for a lawn.

Dave
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xxnonamexx
Original Author
6 years ago
cover crop grass seed to help with nitrogen for plants in vegetable garden. I planted it last fall in my veg garden soon i will cut it low and till into the soil. I was curious if this can be used with grass seed for your lawn.
xxnonamexx
Original Author
6 years ago
Thanks I was just curious.
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
6 years ago
I'm having trouble understanding your concept. You don't till a lawn and a healthy lawn shouldn't have room for anything to be sown in it. Do you mean that you are sowing a brand new lawn and want to know if you can sow grass seed and something else together? If you do that your grass won't be thick enough and what will you do with the cover crop when it's grown?
daninthedirt (USDA 9a, HZ9, CentTX, Sunset z30, Cfa)
6 years ago
Maybe what we're talking about is sowing a cover crop before a new lawn is installed. You grow it, till it under, and plant the new grass on top. Seems like a lot of trouble to go through for something that can be accomplished much more effectively and promptly with nitrogen fertilizer. In either case, whatever nitrogen you get out of it will be gone within a year.
rgreen48
6 years ago
Some people do allow clover to grow in with the grass in their lawns. Perhaps this is what you are hoping to achieve?
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
6 years ago
Or do you mean a cover crop that is grass-like that you could also use in the lawn? Something like winter rye?

Unfortunately, winter rye is a cereal grain, whereas perennial ryegrass is a true grass and the two different genera are not compatible, so not something I'd recommend.

But it is obvious we are not understanding very well what you are asking so maybe some clarification would help....... :-)
digdirt2
6 years ago
"grass seed to help with nitrogen for plants in vegetable garden."

Lawn grass seed isn't used as a cover crop. It isn't nitrogen-fixing, doesn't enrich the soil, and isn't used in vegetable gardens. Cover crops are things like buckwheat, clover, peas, oats, hairy vetch, etc. Not things most would want growing in their lawn.

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beesneeds
6 years ago
Heh, I do let the clovers and such grow in my lawn to a certain extent before they get mowed... before the weed blooms turn to seed. I just don't care if I got weeds in my lawn.

And I'm not understanding what the OP is trying to do either. I was wondering if he meant growing a cover crop instead of a lawn? so he could mow it down and use for a fertilizer.

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