Composting Leaves using cover crops building healthy garden 101 soil. EASY, NO HARD WORK…. Simple pile your fall leaves 1 to 1 1/2 feet tall before winter. Then in the spring past your last frost date and these 4 cover crop seeds. Buy the end of summer you will have the best compost with very little work. Enjoy
VIDEO: Composting Leaves USING Cover Crops Building Healthy Garden 101 Soil, Part 1
Composting Leaves using cover crops building healthy garden 101 soil. EASY, NO HARD WORK…. Simple pile your fall leaves 1 to 1 1/2 feet tall before winter. Then in the spring past your last frost date and these 4 cover crop seeds. Buy the end of summer you will have the best compost with very little work. Enjoy
Was roto-tilling really necessary? A lot of no-till enthusiasts think u never have to till if u use cover crops.
Thanks for the interesting video.
Cool vid thanks for sharing. Mustard is non mycorizal and really needs a low fungal to bacterial biomass ratio, the other 3 are mycorizal and need about a balanced to slightly more fungal than bacteria biomass ratio. In other words the mustard is not the best companion to that mix.
I think it's great how you're using sheet composting and cover crops to build your soil. You mentioned in a comment to me that you don't till any of your fields, but you mention here that you rototill the cover crops/residues into the leave mold it's growing in. At what depth are you rototilling? How do you go about planting crops in a no till system? Do you use heavy equipment or a seeder like the ones manufactured by Hoss or Earthway? Thanks for sharing!
Great stuff!! Thanks for taking the time to share your experience and knowledge.
Great info. Just a couple of questions. Is this field then ready for planting the year after the cover crop? Also, do you add leaf mold to a field on a regular basis, like every 3, 4, or 5 years?
Hello, I just found your channel. I find your videos interesting and informative, so I have subscribed. Thanks for sharing.
Hi I am new to garden and grow vegetable. I came across your channel and believe fall leave or woodchip are the best composting material. I only have about 50 square meters backyard amd with clay soil. I want to plant some fruit tree and vegetable. Just want to know your method of grow clover or sunflower over the yard. Do you pull them out with the root once they are dead?
Here in Ohio the leaves are not down until the first week of November. This seems too late to plant a cover crop because the frost can be heavy. I am wondering when you harvest leaves and plant your cover crop.
Do you specifically recommend these cover crops for this particular application? Would winter rye, vetch, clover, etc give the same or similar results? Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, the information is spot on!
Very good video thanks. Interesting Ph meter that. You have a link to where I can get that?
Hello Mark, I’ve followed your channel since finding it last year…and I have been motivated to grow a no till garden incorporating a winter cover crop. I am retired and this is my first gardening season in a while…but the production has been fantastic in my 8 100’ row garden. Thank you….but I’ve a problem.
Lots of produce but weeds are now taking over. Have you done a video on how to prepare for the second season? Do I start over to minimize weed growth? Do I leave it alone and pull weeds? Do I let them alone and try to minimize them in year two using another winter cover crop? Surely you have experienced something like this…but I can’t find a video with this discussion. Can you give me a thumbnail sketch of how to mitigate this problem?
Thanks much. Bill
I don’t know how you do all this Mark, but thank you and it’s all so very helpful!! God bless you!
Wow planting a cover crop into leaf mold. Such a simple idea yet I never thought of it. I'm going to be doing this for sure next spring. Thanks boss.
Would you recommend planting a cover crop this spring in my zone 6b NJ garden in beds that I want to put a crop into after the last frost date? When would you plant it? Would you plant it into the leaves? You have become my go-to garden adviser. Thank you.
Hi Mark! I was just wondering about a cover crop on mulch. Currently I have more wood chips than leaves. Could I cover crop on wood chips. Very interesting video, thank you!
You don’t have to till it kills the biology in the soil the worms will for you
When should we sow these seeds?
Can you use Oak leaves in your mulch?
Thank you.
Do you cover strawberry plants with hay or pine needles?
"Look at how healthy these roots are!" (Keeps ruining them) lol.
On a serious note, how did you get that much lead mold?