Vinoland's cover crop is looking quite fetching right now, or at least the bit that Vinomaker hasn't already mowed yet is. Alongside the common vetch and the field peas, the crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum) is blooming like crazy. Vinodog 2 had trotted over and joined me in the clover as I took some photographs, so we both lay back in the warm Napa sun, contemplated life and...well it didn't stay like that for long as V2 ran up the hill after a squirrel ending our pensive, albeit short, respite.This particular legume makes for a lovely cover crop; it doesn't have a particularly high biomass (compared to some of the cereal grasses often used for cover crop), but it does fix atmospheric nitrogen...and it just looks so pretty.
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way more impressive if you had legged it after the squirrel...good girl!
Very, very pretty. What a peaceful place.
Thud: I'm waiting until June and then I'll race you up the hill!
Phlegmfatale: It is peaceful...until one of the dog alarms go off (every 5 secs) and the peace is shattered!
Delightful picture, Vinogirl.
Thanks Villager.
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