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Great video! I’m about 3 weeks behind where I would normally be. We held off until Memorial Day weekend and the tomatoes are doing fine so far.
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We moved to a new place this spring and the whole yard was covered in wildflowers, native grasses and white & red clover – some would call that "weeds" but I said, what a bonus! I let it all grow until a few days ago and finally mowed most of it down. Free high-nutrient hay for mulch and compost. Yesterday evening I used some of it to mulch a bed with recently-transplanted tomatoes and hot peppers pretty much the exact same way you just did.
What month should I plant winter rye as a cover crop in zone 4A?
You’ve done it Mark! I have always been a hairy vetch girl, but after watching this video I’ve decided to try winter rye. The reason I was hesitant to make the change was that I was afraid the rye regrowth would smother my new plants. I see now that is not so. Also after seeing those juicy seed heads I’ve realised that it would make beautiful fodder for my chooks and sheep. Great video again Mark.
I've been wondering about what happens to the microbes when you remove the cover crops and plant just a few new plants – do they all die off? I worry I'm starving them, so I've left a lot of the cover crops in place. The veggie plants seem quite happy to co-exist, at least for now.
London is supposedly zone 9 – in our ridiculously cold wet spring followed immediately by ridiculously hot dry summer my tomatoes sown in Feb/Mar have been slow but steady, but SO many plants, esp squashes, simply refused to germinate. So I threw the pots into the compost thinking they were duds. And now, many weeks late I have several unknown squashes growing happily there. Oh well.
Awesome video. Great way to explain how cover crop works. I’ll try it next year here in zone 6A New York.
I planted tomato plants in May in PA – 6A and they are doing well now. I use chickweed as a winter cover crop (my chickens eat it). In spring I mulch with grass to suppress it. I tried rye but it was hard to kill. The garden is in a low/wet area so I raise the beds by digging out the paths, then fill the path with prunings and my neighbors weeds and top it with grass.
Thanks so much for this! Really thorough and helpful!
All the best!
Excellent as always Mark. How is your son doing in the military? I don't think I have heard you mention it in quite a while. As a veteran myself it is always on my mind.
Did you happen to video how you planted the winter rye? Time of year? Ty appreciate your content!
Great info as always, we chop and drop our winter rye and sugar cane stalks as free mulch and thank you for sharing.
Thanks Mark. This was very helpful. After you build the trellis can you please show us your design? Thanks again. Happy Father's Day!
I'm in zone 6B and planted my tomatoes out around that same time. Most are now around 2' tall.
are you saying it's no-till and no water on this experiment?
I'm zone 8b in Oregon. Last frost was 4/16, I planted tomatoes 4/17 after looking at 10 day forecast. Glad I did. The plants I put in are 6' tall and we are heading into some 100+ degree days (very unusual for our area).
Zone 5b toronto. I planted my tomatoes may 15 directly out of 1" cells they had been in for 2 months (too long) and they are now almost chest high and bushy. Had the cells outside in cold temps without frost and they seemed to like it. I had a few plants in 5" pots and they are even taller but straight from 1" cells works.
Very good and informative video.
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Mark, instead of winter rye, can I plant something edible like brassicas, tomatoes, zucchini, fennel, corn etc in the mulch/compost layered bed? I should still build soil and in the meantime eat something :p
You said you cut back the rye once before and it grew back nearly as tall. Wont it just grow back again so you have to cut it again, this time between the tomatoes?
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I'm collecting my leaves to start a leaf mold bed this fall! I'm very excited for this method.