Catch Crop

A catch-crop ploughed in like this enriches the land. ❋ Arthur Owens Cooke (N/A)

Near Willow Farm some farmers grow mustard as a catch-crop. ❋ Arthur Owens Cooke (N/A)

Moreover a number of weeds are buried with the catch-crop before they have time to blossom and to shed their seed. ❋ Arthur Owens Cooke (N/A)

They started ploughing, and though it was late in the season, he was persuaded to try a catch-crop of maize, with the result that he has to-day banked $5,000, when he never expected to secure a chance harvest. ❋ Various (N/A)

Norah used to receive anxious inquiries from various corners of the earth afterwards -- from Egypt or Salonica would come demands as to the success of a catch-crop which the writer had helped to sow, or of a brood of Buff Orpingtons which he had watched hatching out in the incubator: even from German East Africa came a letter asking after a special litter of pigs! ❋ Mary Grant Bruce (1918)

Between 2,300 and 2,600 acres, according to recent returns, have been under coffee as a catch-crop with cocoanuts, out of a total of 40,000 acres in cocoanut estates. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Growers there found that "it makes very rapid growth, maturing in seven or eight weeks from the time of sowing, and if cut before the seed develops, a second crop can be obtained from the same stand; it makes an excellent catch-crop for hay, two successive cuttings being obtainable during the summer on unirrigated land. ❋ Unknown (1996)