Tag: Sunn Hemp

Cover Crops in Sandy Soil: Legumes and Grasses Differ in Nitrogen Cycling

by Mike Loizzo
October 29, 2025

Florida’s sandy soils typically have low organic matter and high permeability. That means a greater risk of nutrient leaching before a plant or tree can use what it needs. Cover crops are an option for improving soil fertility because they ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Carbon, Cover Crops, Inorganic Nitrogen, Juma Bukomba, Legumes, Mary Lusk, Nitrogen, Sandy Soils, Soil Water And Ecosystem Sciences, Sorghum, Sudangrass, Sunn Hemp

Sunn Hemp and Cowpea as Cover Crops in Florida

by Jessica M. Ryals
July 13, 2021

Pictured here are two types of summer cover crops used by local Collier County farmer, Nick Batty of Inyoni Organic Farm; Sunn hemp and Cowpea. image 1: sunn hemp and cowpea cover crop mix on organic farm in Collier County Sunn ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Agawareness, Agriculture, Collier County, Cover Crops, Cowpea, Organic, Soil Health, Soil Nutrients, Sunn Hemp, Sustainability, Sustainable Farming, SWFL

Tis the Season for Sunn Hemp

by Wendy Mussoline
August 27, 2020

“What are all those pretty yellow flowers growing in the farm fields”? That would be Sunn Hemp – a leguminous cover crop that adds organic matter and nutrients to the soil during the fallow times of the year. Annual cover crops are ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management
Tags: Cover Crop, Legume, Nutrients, Organic, Soil, Sunn Hemp

A Window of Opportunity for Planting Potatoes

by Wendy Mussoline
February 4, 2019

If you live in the Tri-County Agriculture Area (TCAA) which includes Putnam, Flagler and St. Johns Counties, you’ve probably noticed that we’ve been a bit wetter than normal for this time of year. Just to put this extraordinarily wet year ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture
Tags: Field Day, Fumigant, Nematodes, Potato, Rain, Sunn Hemp

Cover cropping for improved soil productivity

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 1, 2014

Tallahassee Democrat August 1, 2014 By Trevor Hylton Photo by Trevor Hylton Cover crops have traditionally been used by farmers to improve soil, but they can also benefit the home gardener. ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Horticulture
Tags: Buckwheat, Cover Crops, Drought Tolerant Plants, Hay Production, July-September 2014, Sunn Hemp

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