Fig. 1.
Total organic carbon stocks for the 0 to 30 cm depth in all eight systems (A)–(H) over eight years in the Salinas Organic Cropping Systems experiment in Salinas, California. The systems differed in compost additions (none versus 7.6 Mg ha−1 before each vegetable crop, oven-dry basis), cover crop type (legume-rye, mustard, or rye), cover cropping frequency (every 4th winter versus annually) and cover crop seeding rate (1x= standard rate versus 3x= high rate); see Table 1 for more seeding rate details. Symbols are raw data in order of replicates 1 to 4 with mean and 95% confidence interval (CI) in the center of each data cluster.