I promise to show the purpose of growing mustard flowers . It`s for green manure. All those flowers are plough into the soil
Wikepedia says : In agriculture, green manure refers to crops which have allready been uprooted (and have often allready been stuffed under the soil).[1] The then dying plants are of a type of cover crop often grown primarily to add nutrients and organic matter to the soil (ie nitrogen-fixing crops). Typically, a green manure crop is grown for a specific period of time, and then ploughed under and incorporated into the soil while green or shortly after flowering. Green manure crops are commonly associated with organic agriculture, and are considered essential for annual cropping systems that wish to be sustainable. Traditionally, the practice of green manuring can be traced back to the fallow cycle of crop rotation, which was used to allow soils to recover.
This scene could easily be from my memory of my grandmother's farm. Tractor... flat.... fields..... It is interesting the things that are alike about your home and mine. And then there are really big differences.... Her farm did not have a castle in the background.... or is it a steeple?
@http365proj Winter cover crops such as oats or rye have long been used as green manures.
Fava beans
Mustard
Clover
Vetch (Vicia sativa)
Buckwheat in temperate regions
Lupin
Fenugreek
Sunn hemp, a tropical legume
Alfalfa, which sends roots deep to bring nutrients to the surface.
Velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens), common in the southern US during the early part of the 20th century, before being replaced by soybeans, popular today in most tropical countries, especially in Central America, where it is the main green manure used in slash/mulch farming practices
Tyfon, a Brassica known for a strong tap root that breaks up heavy soils.
Ferns of the genus Azolla have been used as a green manure in southeast Asia. ( Wikepedia )
Fava beans
Mustard
Clover
Vetch (Vicia sativa)
Buckwheat in temperate regions
Lupin
Fenugreek
Sunn hemp, a tropical legume
Alfalfa, which sends roots deep to bring nutrients to the surface.
Velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens), common in the southern US during the early part of the 20th century, before being replaced by soybeans, popular today in most tropical countries, especially in Central America, where it is the main green manure used in slash/mulch farming practices
Tyfon, a Brassica known for a strong tap root that breaks up heavy soils.
Ferns of the genus Azolla have been used as a green manure in southeast Asia. ( Wikepedia )