Fig. 2. Surface (0–20 cm) soil moisture contents (g water/100 g soil, i.e., %) during the spring of 1990 under cover crop and kill-date treatments of: rye killed early (RYP) or late (RYL), vetch killed late (VTL), vetch–rye mixture killed early (MXP) or late (MXL), or no-cover (CKL).