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green crop (plural green crops)
- (obsolete, agriculture) A vegetable crop, as opposed to a cereal crop; a crop which has green leaves when harvested
- 1794 Bryce Johnson General View of the Agriculture of the County of Dumfries (London: T. Wright) pp.20-21:
- After opening from pasture, two crops of oats; one of any green crop, as peas or beans in broad cast, or potatoes or turnips in drills, all with sufficient dunging; one of barley in broad cast, sown down with rye-grass and clover seeds ; two in hay, and four in pasture. This rotation is completed in ten years. Many leave out the green crop, which reduces the rotation to nine years.
1837 August 15, “Explanation of Terms”, in The Farmers' Cabinet, Philadelphia, Vol.II No.2 p.26:22. Green Crops—are such as continue green while ripening their seed, or till taken off the ground; such as peas, beans, cabbage, carrots, turneps [sic], &c.
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