Lesson 8.5 PESTS - Pest management with cover crops

 




FOOD FOREST COURSE

AGRO-ECONOMY Lesson 8.5 

PESTS - Pest management with cover crops

 

Some cover crops are used as so-called ‘trap crops’, to attract pests away from the crop of value and toward what the pest sees as a more favourable habitat.  Trap crop areas can be established within crops, within farms, or within landscapes.  In many cases the trap crop is grown during the same season as the food crop being produced.  The limited area occupied by these trap crops can be treated by farmers that drive over the trap crop with a large vacuum-based implement to physically pull the pests off the plants and out of the field.  This system has been recommended for use to help control the pest lygus bug in organic strawberry production.  Other cover crops are used to attract natural predators of pests by providing elements of their habitat.  This is a form of biological control known as habitat augmentation, but achieved with the use of cover crops.

One example of a trap crop in a Permaculture gardens is by using the crotolaria shrub, planting several of these near citrus trees.  They act as a decoy for the leaf miner.  The grubs adore the crotolaria and largely leave the citrus leaves alone.  The crotolaria will easily recover again from the infestation.

 

Weed inhibiting plants

Buckwheat, pine needles, potatoes, oats, pumpkins, poppies, rye, sunflowers.

 Weed Barriere plants

 Lemon grass, arrowroot, pigeon pea, comfrey.

 Wattles as chop and drop

 Sydney golden wattle, Sally wattle, Black wattle, Acacia longifolia, Acacia floribunda, Acaia decurrens, Acacia melonoxylon, Acacia fimbriata, Black wood, Brisbane golden wattle.

Text from the roots, Elisabeth Ferkonia (Aus.) PDC studied with Bill Mollison.


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