alley crop

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To plant non-woody crops between rows of nut, fruit, timber, or fodder trees.

   • First stop for our entourage of two buses and three cars is a technical school where the headmaster has directed his students to alley crop a small field of Leucaena and cowpeas.
   • You can alley crop with brambles, blueberries, fruit or nuts.
   • Shepherd will continue to alley crop corn and hay in between the tree rows until the trees become too large and shade out the crops.
2. 2

   A crop that is cultivated in this manner.

   • Through the improved management of alley crops and fallow, it should be possible to increase crop yields in ShC systems and at the same time decrease the adverse environmental impacts of these systems.
   • On these nutrient-poor and acid soils, root competition for nutrients between crops and trees can be very intense, resulting in poor growth of the alley crops, especially of plants growing near the hedgerows.
   • Alley crops are generally the 'hedge crop' or creeper which is clipped after some days, or some flower plants.

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