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Thank you for sharing your findings, I’ve been a fan for years!
Thank you for sharing
I like your squash hobby nice tip on vine bore
I found by adding baking soda to my spray does a decent job keeping the darn bugs
Every garden each year is a learning experience! Thanks for the update! It really has been a difficult year, similar weather here in SW Indiana! Sure hope its a late frost.
I can totally relate to your video. I have an area in my garden which I completely neglected this year and it’s full of weeds. Since last fall, I’ve been using that area as a dumping ground and didn’t plant anything. Just a few weeks ago, to my surprise, I noticed a squash plant growing amongst all the weeds. It was an acorn squash plant and looked very healthy just like yours in the video.
Great video!
Interesting experiment Mark. This year again, our garden looks like your field. It's happened before and harvest is ok. It is better if we keep the weeds down but life gets in the way and weeding doesn't happen. It is great that you seeded so late and still had a fair crop, proof that determination works, keep it going! It's not a bumper crop but the way you grew it this year was the best way to conserve water with the shading by the grasses. Did you rototill the one side to allow the vines to creep into the light? It looks like it was a good idea in any case!
I see you mowed on either side of the squash, do you know if the grasses still produced seeds after the mowing? Reason I ask is that when we mow the lawn the grasses will send up seeds anyhow. To me this seems to make mowing unecessary, or did you have something in mind with it?
One more question:). We have never green manured the garden. Lambs Quarters had overtaken the garden for 2 years in a row, we cut it down and left it in place, this year it hardly came up at all. But in the beet and carrot beds this year we applied 2 inches of 3 year old compost over the Lamb's Quarters and again the carrots & beets have hairy roots. Do you think it's possible that weeds could be helping fertilize the soil and compost is adding too much fertilizer? You likely know it's too much nitrogen in our soil so it needs to be curbed. But I like seeding in a layer of compost & not sure what to do about the hairy roots…
My apoligies for the all over the map reply, my head is going 100 miles an our with this video, lol. I really enjoyed it and am off the watch it a 3rd time, happy harvesting!
Christopher Lloyd, a famous English gardener, once said that soil would have to be d— poor if it didn't grow weeds. I made peace with mine years ago and the stress level went down! Good to see your crop recover.
Greetings from YYC, Calgary Alberta Canada where it's snowing and 28F at 11AM…low forecast for Monday 12F. My organic farmer daughter and son in law are at an outdoor market and CSA pickup this morning. It's been the year of the storm this year averaging 2 major hail events per month in their area. Tough year all around! God bless farmers everywhere!!
I planted a cover crop of red clover early this spring, and then when the clover was a inch or so tall after no chance of frost I put some butternut seeds from a good looking squash from last year in the ground and then thinned the squash seeds down to one plant every four feet or so. Now the squash are growing above the clover, and are huge squash. This is how I plan to grow butternut squash from now on. Thank you for your information. I am glad to learn that weeds don't kill your crop. I didn't keep up with weeding, and I have strawberry plants growing somewhere beneath a bunch of weeds. I plan to find them next year and make the best of the situation. Pulling weeds now would pull up the strawberry plants with them.
My raised beds did well considering the uncooperative weather. Looking forward to next spring. Hope your neck heals quick!
Nice video, Mark. Amazing squash growth. Sorry about your pinched nerve. Hope it heals fast. This was a hard year for gardening but a good year to learn.
I wish I had some of those leaves.
It's actually lovely to see the weeds, I know its not a perfect situation, but better to have something growing and covering the ground.
Heading into summer her and its very dry for the second year. Things will be turning to dust shortly… anywhere there isn't a good mulch cover. Watching your videos of lush green fields takes my mind off it. Its always lovely to hear what you are up to. I hope the neck comes good soon.
Thanks, Mark, and we hope the neck heals up.
if you watch no-kill pasture cropping. you can grow in the pasture. then knock the pasture down using a roller-crimper. I'd do it in sections though. so some of your pasture can grow tall. then you graze that. pick a goat something that likes to graze tall. rabbits work as well weirdly enough. anyways. graze the uncrimp strip down but not too low. leave some litter. then let that pasture grow normally. you get the same effect. a little more work but same effect.
Quite the racket going there, taking the city's debris, getting paid for it, and not having to water :O Your the man! …. now all you need to do, is plant something that jumps off the vine and onto the produce truck… lol jk Keep up the great work!
Gorgeous squash, we also save our seeds, thank you for sharing and rest up your neck.
Do Mulch and cover crop both is what I would say. They both have distinct purposes.
2:54 yes, that is the main reason everyone should save their own seeds where possible.
Another thing about saving your own seeds is that you have plenty. You can plant them around anywhere just to see if they will grow!
Great idea to show comparison between mulching and cover crop. Looking forward to your video and to see your take on it.
Farmers have been using squash vines to make use of weedy areas for centuries.They plant them at the edge of there cleared land and let them climb into the weeds.There large leaves and heavy fruit harm the weeds more than the weeds harm the squash because,as you noticed,the weeds attract pollinators and predators.This is especially so if you choose your"weeds"more wisely" and plant some that flower and provide nectar and also weeds that produce nitrogen.The person that mentioned tossing compostables into a weedy area instead of going through composting them is also doing a centuries old trick that farmers do with land that is laying fallow.This way,the soil comes out of the fallow very much more enriched,with little work.I like your use of tons and tons of leaves.I could never get enough for a small urban garden.They rot down to such a small fraction of there original volume that its hard to have too many.I think that if you can trim some of the weeds down,it's worth it.They will regrow enough to control erosion and the mulch the cut part forms will be good for the soil(my 2 cents).Good luck with that shoulder.Consider seeing a Neurologist for another opinion.
Hello from the New England Tablelands, NSW, Australia! We are in the middle of a ferocious drought with many farms & towns completely out of water. I wasn't going to put in a veggie patch this year (because we are out of water, too) but your videos have inspired me to at least give it a try. Trying to figure out how to establish a cover crop in soils that are almost water-repellent because they're so dry. Thanks for the inspiration!
We have no frosts where I live in Australia. What should I plant to build soil? Obviously I can plant sunflowers, but which grass? I’m scared of growing a ryegrass I may not be able to control it as we grow well here in winter. We don’t really ever have night temperatures much under 10 degrees Celsius. Thanks in advance
I'm really happy to know you are in New Jersey. I'll be moving to NJ as well for a job ( Hillsborough). I'm also a garden fanatic and I have really enjoyed your videos.
How are you preparing this field for the winter and next spring? Did you mow it down and then plant winter rye? It looks like the weeds would be very fibrous and difficult to plant a cover crop in and your fields in the other videos always look so clean when you plant a cover crop.
Thank you for this very informative way to plant my fields. It’s my first time planting in the field I have beds but I need to expand and this tutorial was a big help with a no dig way to grow. Ty again. God bless
L❤️ve your videos thank you!