Cover crop mix I used: https://bit.ly/3DCvP9o I am a HUGE fan of practical, efficient gardening practices, and cover cropping is an under-utilized one for the home gardener. It’s a fantastic way to prevent erosion, build nutrients, loosen soil, provide habitat, and more. Best of all, it’s DEAD SIMPLE.
0:00 – Intro
0:38 – Benefits of Cover Cropping
2:50 – Cover Crop Varieties
4:08 – Sowing Cover Crops
5:01 – Killing Cover Crops
6:42 – Tilling and Outro
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I wish I had sun in the yard still.. waaahhhhh
Great ideas there! I'm on the coast in the UK so it doesn't get super cold here, I mainly plant kale, chard and other brassicas over winter as a cover crop. Lettuce and other salad greens work well too, a bonus being you can pick the outer leaves (though they often don't get big enough for much of a harvest with only 7 hours of daylight!). I'm making more of an effort this year to leave no bed empty.
Im going to plant clover in some of the market garden but I'm trying to go hard on cool weather stuff during my short cool season.
will this work on a flower periennial garden? or just veggies????
never in my life I wanted to say HOT DAYUUM to a garden, but seriously crazy how gorgeous it is.
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Thanks for mentioning that they can compete. I was wondering if I should thin with how thick it was.
Great video, thank you for addressing timing and what to do with it. Many people just say ‘plant a cover crop’ and that’s it. Thanks!
No till planting, crop rotation and cover crops are the key not only for soil health but also as help for our climate. Healthy soil is a carbon depository that needs very little fertilizer or harmful pest control chemicals. Instead, the healthy soil absorbs atmospheric carbon that fuels the biodiversity below ground. Monoculture farming with no cover crops and constant tilling exposes the life-giving soil to the atmosphere where carbon fills the air and leads to weather changes, global warming. 90 million acres of commercial farmland all using archaic methods and hundreds of millions of acres worldwide doing the same explains a great deal of the global warming origins. Every farmer and home garden enthusiast should read "The Soil Will Save Us" by Kristin Ohlson.
What about letting native weeds grow until spring?
Great great information
So true, l cut my grass and now the ground is so dry.
I knew marigolds had an effect on soil nematodes, but I didn’t know mustard does the same or something similar thanks Kevin.
Will cover crops help with ants? My gardens are heavily infested with ant colonies. I’m at my wits end!
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I have a small perennial garden. The soil is pretty heavy with clay. Suggestions? Right on the edge of zones 6b and 7a.
I am in zone 6. You didn't talk about what would work here, so this video was not helpful.
I never really knew what the purpose of a cover crop was, thanks for the info. My natural cover crop seems to be bermuda grass on my yard.
David Pakman sent me here … am gonna check out your gardening stuff … I love gardens. Monty's 80 gardens show is one of my favorite tv shows…watched that show so many times.
hey! is there a summer kill cover crop? I live in Kuwait & our winters are mild but our summers are very extreme. We get 50-60 C. (120-140F ) heat. do the cover crops also survive the heat and if so is there anything that you would reccomend?
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This is some really good information. We are wanting to learn more about gardening so that we have a great garden here in Oklahoma. Thanks for sharing.
I boost my outdoor container plants by giving them a hydroponic solution with macro-micro-trace elements plus mycorrhizae and amino acids.
Do you recommend using an inoculent with your cover crop seed?
I'm surprised we didn't see the use of the hand sickle in this video 😀
What cover crops for Texas winter that chickens can eat?