catch crop
a crop that reaches maturity in a relatively short time, often planted as a substitute for a crop that has failed or at a time when the ground would ordinarily lie fallow, as between the plantings of two staple crops.
Origin of catch crop
1Other words from catch crop
- catch cropping, noun
Words Nearby catch crop
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How to use catch crop in a sentence
Beans may be used with some success as a fall catch crop, where wild flowers are not too plentiful.
The Practical Garden-Book | C. E. Hunncatch crop, a crop growing during the interval between regular crops.
The First Book of Farming | Charles L. GoodrichFor a catch crop on land after wheat and barley, Sesame may be sown in the beginning of June.
The Khedive's Country | George Manville FennAfter the second cutting for the season, winter rye may be grown as a catch crop by growing it as a pasture crop.
Clovers and How to Grow Them | Thomas ShawAs a catch crop crimson clover may be made to do duty in seasons in which other clover crops may have failed.
Clovers and How to Grow Them | Thomas Shaw
British Dictionary definitions for catch crop
a quick-growing crop planted between two regular crops grown in consecutive seasons, or between two rows of regular crops in the same season
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