| Images of Barley
| | Note: The following cover crop images are part of an extensive collection of cover crop photographs maintained the UC SAREP staff. The images have not been completely categorized and labeled. Some will be included in a book on cover crops due out in 1997, but all images have been made available online because of the overwhelming number of requests we have had for them. |
| Barley is an early-maturing winter annual grass useful as a cover crop. Photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Barley is an early-maturing winter-annual grass that seldom self-regenerates in orchards or vineyards. Photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Barley is a cool-season annual grass that is excellent for improving water infiltration.
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| Barley sustains various grain aphids, including bird cherry - oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi), which in turn sustain lady beetles (pupae shown here) and other predators. Photo by Bob Bugg.
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| If winter annual cover crops are allowed to go to seed, they may become weed problems with subsequent vegetable crops, as with volunteer barley shown here in a vegetable crop. Watsonville, CA. Photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Barley can be included in mixtures with vetches, bell bean, and field pea, as shown here in Watsonville, California. Photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Cover crops of barley, bell bean, field pea, and vetches may be used in rotation with strawberry. Watsonville, CA. Photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Barley matures earlier than many other cover crops, and is often used as in vineyards. Hopland, CA. Photo by Robert L. Bugg.
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