Green manuring fallowing composting cover crops Strip cropping crop rotation mulching
FILL IN THE BLANKS: Fill in the blanks from the farming practices listed above based on the description given.
------------------1. Means not sowing a plant for one planting season.
------------------2. Involves interplanting two or more mutually beneficial crops in close proximity.
------------------3. Planting different crops in successive planting seasons; provides an abundant supply of plant-essential minerals annually.
----------------- 4.The practice of turning into the soil undecomposed green plant tissue to add organic matter to the soil.
--------------5.Stabilizes the nutrients inmanure,builds populations of beneficial organisms, and has a highly beneficial effect on soil and crops.
--------------6. Entails the spreading of large amounts of organic materials-straw,old hay,wood chips,etc.-over otherwise bare soil between and among crop plants.It regulates soil moisture and temperature, suppress weeds, and provide organic matter to the soil.
--------------7. Any field of forage crop grown to provide soil cover