Ryan M Miller wrote:I just learned that another drawback to using fennel as a cover crop is that the plant is a perennial and not an annual. This may cause problems when it comes time to chop up the plants into the soil, especially if it can clone itself from root fragments like dandelions or creeping thistle. I'll do some more reading.
If you ever pasture crop things like pumpkins, wheat, oats, fodder beats. PAsture cropping is where you double graze hard in an area then no till drill a normal seed mix. Ie okra, pumpkins, wheat, peas,
sainfoin, alfalfa, sunflowers. So forth then you crop those like you are cropping a normal crop and you can
sell it in market. If it's pumps and you want it to look pretty you can actually walk your pasture and spread a lil bit of
cardboard boxes under plans and then some woodchips on top of the boxes to help it along. But honestly grows fine without it. You can also feed it off directly to live stock but certain crops we found we can take it to market depending on how many days it's been since livestock has been in the field. Certain crops are just too short to turn around and try and sell it. You could treat Fennel as a high value pasture crop like we do sainfoin and alfalfa. It would probably be a great crop for a pasture that sees a lot of
rabbits and quail.