A fi eld on the south side of the highway leading into Palmer has an obvious diversity of vegetation growing, even after freezing temperatures a few weeks ago stopped some of the plant growth. Jerry Burger, of Palmer, planted a mix of cover crop plants as well as other plants that develop the soil. Several washes of color hit the hillside when fl ax, buckwheat and sunfl owers bloomed at different times. Each type of plant in the mix, which also includes spring forage peas, spring lentils, nitro radishes, Florida broadleaf mustard and rye,…