Making 30,000+ Holes For BUILDING FALL GARDEN SOIL
This is so Easy to do by using a Fall Planted Cover Crop Seed call either Daikon Radish, Oil Seed Radish or No till Radish . Building Soil
in the Fall.
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Great stuff, Mr Mark. Do wild rabbits and deer target this plot?
Is it too late to plant this now in the mid of October?
Economical livestock fodder too !!
Thank you spreading the benefits of Daikon.
I like Daikon shavings in My sweet potato hash browns. -KJ
The deer chewed mine last night, but the plant appears fine. I am enjoying growing the cover crops as much as anything. Zone 8 b
Thanks for all your content. I’ve been subscribed for quite a while, so you’ve taught me quite a bit! Please keep doing what you’re doing.
I dumped out some micro greens that didn't sprout in some non amended sand. I noticed raddishes starting to grow. When I pulled some out, I was shocked. One was 5lbs, 4lbs and 2 lbs. I have pictures or I probably wouldn't be believed. I used them in boiled greens like a turnip. Tasty.
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Do you have any problems with sparrows and blackbirds eating your seeds after sowing?
We are 6b/7a….will use row covers….just ordered one pound. This has been a terrible summer for gardening, with the drought and the heat. Your optimism and reminder to keep it simple are inspiring…..hoping for improved conditions next year.
What would happen if I didn't a have a winter kill this year?
Awesome. Nice video. I just bought some Jackhammer Daikons from urban farmer seeds and am trying the same thing. They just started to sprout. We’ll see how it goes. Glad to see this video cover the daikons.
Hi Mark. I love your videos. The radishes already look great. I live in NJ and have a hard time growing radishes and other cooler weather root crops. I don’t get enough sun this time of year (too many trees in the suburbs). Those crops need several hours of sun even during these shorter days. I wind up with lush tops but very small bulbs.
Mark, how do you determine what locations on your farm you use winter cover crops versus covered soil (leaf mold or wood chips)? I assume you can’t reasonably plant winter rye or radishes into 4-5 inches of chips and leaf mold.
Btw, I covered my entire garden with leaf mold and chips last Fall. Despite the great 2022 summer drought we had great production without much watering. Also, So many more worms in the garden and other positives. Thank you for your advice over the years.
There were a few negatives however. A large portion of my sweet corn never developed ears. My soil remained very moist so I did not water but eventually the corn began to tassel and no ears were forming on many of them. I did water late and it helped save some of the crop. This years drought was extraordinary. Does there come a point with some crops that you must water or else risk losing all in severe drought?
Also, the wood chips were a breeding ground for slugs and cucumber beetles. The numbers were extraordinary. I have about 2000 square feet. Do you have any suggestions? I have about 100 squash plants alone so I need something practical that will cover a lot of vines. We are organic and use OMRI controls. However, I cannot spray every vine, top and bottom, after every rain with diatomaceous earth. It’s not practical. I know tons of beetles are overwintering in the chips. Thanks.
tried this a few times… birds and squirrels just destroy them as they sprout 🙁
My son planted similar radishes 35 days ago. They are fatter than yours . So we gave some to our pigs and they love them.
My question is we want to improve our soil, that’s our number one priority. Number 2 is feed our pigs. So if I put the pigs in the paddock directly and they dig the radishes and obviously eat them. So will this defeat the purpose letting the pigs root up the radishes?
I love watching your vids. I do watch and listen w one earpiece in usually. Your voice comes in another channel that my workpiece is not in and then I basically can’t hear you at all. If you can figure out how to make your voice audio in mono instead of stereo that would great so I can hear ya with one AirPod in my ear. Mono audio usually projects into left and right.
Love this radish, every other week or so we make “mooli paratha”
You may require only 100 seeds in early spring to get 30,000 plus seeds
Mark,
For 12 years you hadn’t used fertilizers! That’s great! During the growing season, will you share more of what you’re growing commercially?
One more question: I think I have mice in our home garden which is right next to the house. That puts me off edible gardening a bit. You said you don’t compost, what do you do with your garden ‘waste’?
Hey Mark. Should we kill cover crop for it to benefits while we are in tropic region? I mean there's no frost in tropics, right?
Hello Mark,, I put also in one bed winter rye with oil radish and is 4 inch tall already.
How do I terminate this crop? How long before it decomposes? What do I plant in its place and do I have to wait for the radishes to decompose before planting a spring crops there?