Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/887/en

as a follow-on crop after another cereal, after root crops, cover crops, and fodder crops, a deeper, loosening, turning, and mixing soil cultivation is called for. In the case of a cover crop grown for green manure, this must be mown in good time, left to wilt, and then mulched in, before a seed furrow can be drawn — with crust-breaking press wheels where needed. Waiting too long in the hope of greater mass can have serious consequences: heavy dew-fall on the shortening days, persistent fog, or drizzle will cause putrefaction in green matter that has not wilted completely. On heavy soils above all, this leads through anaerobic conditions to lasting growth disturbances. The deeper-reaching seed furrow clears the way for the tender germinal roots, so that they can strive strictly downward. It is remarkable to see how swiftly, straight, and deep they grow together in autumn with the crumbling earth as one. As plants in spring, in the lengthening days, seem to outgrow the earth with stem, leaf, and blossom and strive toward the light, so in late autumn, with the first night frosts and the lengthening nights, they press their leaves to the ground in a compressed rosette and sink their roots vertically into the depth. The root strives and grows into the outwardly lightless, and meets in the darkness of the earth — through the cosmic radiation working in the earthly via silica, lime, and clay — that which shapes the archetypal image of plant genera, families, and so forth into their physically sense-perceptible likeness.