Tag: cover crops

• Weekly Field Update – 8/16/21

  Coastal Region Zack Snipes reports, “Its hot and humid in the Lowcountry. Fall tomato and watermelons are in the ground and enjoyed a week of mostly dry weather. Okra and sunchokes, aka Jerusalem artichokes, are loving this heat. With the exception of those crops, there aren’t too many crops in the ground right now.  I am […]

  Justin Ballew

  August 16, 2021

  Weekly Field Updates

  clemson extension, cover crops, crop destruction, crop rotation, Disease, fall crops, Hemp, hot, humidity, pecans, rain, south carolina, Weekly Field Updates

• Weekly Field Update – 10/26/20

  Statewide Dr. Matt Cutulle reports, “A good stand of fall cover crops will typically suppress most weeds. However, you may want to pursue herbicide options for cleaning up the weeds that have pushed through the cover crop canopy. If these cover crops act as buffers in fall vegetable crops, one has to proceed with caution […]

  Justin Ballew

  October 26, 2020

  Weekly Field Updates

  Apples, clemson extension, cover crops, deer, Disease, Insects, planting, scouting, south carolina, Strawberries, Weekly Field Updates

• Field Update – 8/5/19

  Coastal Region Zack Snipes reports, “Summer cover crops are looking good in the Lowcountry.  Cowpeas are one of my favorite cover crops for their ability to shade out weeds, particularly nutsedge, and provide the land with nitrogen for the next crop planted. We have had some timely rains to keep everything green and prepare fields […]

  Justin Ballew

  August 5, 2019

  Weekly Field Updates

  clemson extension, cover crops, fall crops, harvest, muscadines, planting, Weekly Field Updates