NO TILL Gardening using Black & Decker 40V Cordless Mower Review. To maintain living cover crop cover. Bought it from www.AMAZON.com
BLACK+DECKER CM2040 40V Lithium 3-in-1 Cordless Mower, 20″
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VIDEO: NO TILL Gardening using Black & Decker 40V Cordless Mower Review to maintain living cover
NO TILL Gardening using Black & Decker 40V Cordless Mower Review. To maintain living cover crop cover. Bought it from www.AMAZON.com
BLACK+DECKER CM2040 40V Lithium 3-in-1 Cordless Mower, 20″
Sold by: Amazon.com LLC
Is this a better option that using your hedge trimmer?
I use a gas mower but otherwise this is exactly the same method I have been experimenting with the last 5 years. It works.
Hi, Mark. I am glad it work well for you. I also did not hear a bog down on the mower. The gas mower you can hear a stress and almost die on tall grass like that. Time wise how long did the 1 battery hold out? It is only 15 min max on the weed wacker. I have one of that brand. Thanks. Have a great week E 🙂
Great vid! Sure beats that hedge trimmer. LOL
BEAUTIFUL! It's easy to see that you put a great deal of thought into this method. Looking forward to seeing an overview video. Thanks again and Many Blessings.
That mower did a great job! Do you dump the grass from the bag back onto the same space to add biomass, or compost it elsewhere?
The mower is the only member of the B&D set I don't have. Hmmm.
Cool video, just found your channel and subbed!
This is genius,
Living soil builder!
And it keeps weeds from your pathways!
I'm thinkin, hmm . . . .rotate path & planting rows, each year?
Or every few years?
After about 1 or 2 years batteries lose alot of their umpf and discharge quickly. And I bet B&D charges a premium for new ones. I would stick to corded electric.
I've had a cordless electric mower for years, thoroughly recommend it, not least for how light it is with the batteries removed – easy to haul about.
i have the 36 V ryobi lawn mower and i love it to bits, plenty of power and charge for a small yard and i love that you can start and stop it with zero effort. no petrol rip cord thing. its also much quieter and lighter to push. With solar on the roof its free recharge too! The older model let you chop and drop mulch with it which they took away sadly.
Love watching you and your channel. You really are doing your own thing and have a great variety of original content. Keep at it!
That went better than I thought it would; that rye was tall. Which discharge did you use? I wasn't able to tell. Thank you. ; )
Great option, I recently purchased my own electric mower and never thought about using it in the garden. Thanks for the idea. My new mower is an 80 volt Kobalt (from Lowes) and it is working extremely well.
so you grew the winter rye, then tampered it down or cut and dropped before planting into it? so the winter rye becomes your mulch as it's dead. then you have the living cover of rye on the sides that you mow? or is that just weed type grass? just want to make sure i have it right.
thank you so much! learning a lot from you! greeting from norway
I read the "One Straw Revolution" back in the 1980s and was confused. IF this simple approach is so effective so efficient, why are NO farmers using it? Then I saw some "low till" experiments for a couple of years. Then back to the way things always got done. AND BACK TO LOSING MONEY EVERY YEAR… You are to be commended for putting ALL the pieces together.and making it work!!! Lost our home to a fallen red oak May 2015. Most of our 90+ year old forest we lived in was stolen by a corrupt timber company not following our agreement. Supposed to 'thin out' vs. CLEAR CUT. The builder didn't scrape up and save our rich top soil (ignoring county codes to abate erosion.). So we now are looking at 4 acres of mostly red clay wash away every time it rains. Beginning from scratch, we're adopting your techniques to restore our beautiful homestead. Finding a landscaper who will go along has been impossible and we are not healthy to do the work ourselves. So we're sodding a 20' "fire ring" round the new house and seeding the rest with grass (or might buckwheat control the disaster???) Will have to go back with winter rye this fall. No chance for a garden this season but it's gonna happen in the spring. …And.. we're off!
I read about a system like this years ago but it was just white clover and kept much shorter. the strain on the mower cutting that long stuff will drastically shorten it's life
great job though definitely the way to go alas I have not adopted it as my garden is to higgildy piggildy but if I had a large flat field most definitely
The short clover clippings where said to be a favourite food to the worms alfalfa with its more extensive root system might be even better for mineral pumping
i. bought the 60v snapper 350$, i love it and i use it in my backyard garden too, love your videos
How do you plant the rye? Broadcast?
im curious what kind of yield are you getting vs using fertilizer??? have you made any test plots to see?
Unconventional idea your proposing, i love it. awesome, so glad to learn more as you go this summer.
Living mulch?
Good Stuff. Really appreciate your videos. I have seen some discouraging info out there about yields in organic no till fields, like this report https://www.cias.wisc.edu/living-mulch-suppresses-weeds-and-yields-in-organic-vegetable-plots-cias-research-brief-100/ Any ideas as to why this is? Thank you!
Thanks Mark l play your videos over and over and learn something every time.
Thank you.