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How do I know what my cover crops my soil needs? New to no dig x
Thank you!
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Isn’t it too late in the season (zone 8 I think the same as your area…. PNW usa) to plant cover crops to amend my soil?
Awesome video! Excellent content and production. Thanks!
radish ,mustard and tagetes sown around brassicas can reduce the number of pest root nematodes .
I've grown hairy vetch for years in my garden and believe it hurt the production of my pole lima beans. I always had success with lima beans until I started planting the vetch in those beds the previous Autumn. The vetch seemed to cause my limas to grow huge leafy plants with no beans. Did you ever run into any cover crops providing too much nitrogen for certain plants?
Hay Huw…
I'm glad you brought this up,I must say that alot of it went over my head,being autistic I don't always get things the way others do.
My main issue is I'm growing in growbags ATM till I can make some raised beds as I don't have much money-another story.
I am obviously growing in compost and I thought it was ok. But I'm now finding,after one year,that it's a bit off. And obviously it's the little bits and worms and the little stuff in the soil that is no good.
So that's what I need to improve to get more food next year.
Some of my bags have winter crops in like kale and turnips, purple brocli,lettuce. But I have growbags with potatoes in that are due to come out in the next week or so.
How best is to get the soil better?
Leave it in the bags and grow cover crops like you say,or to put it all in a big deep bag and then grow?
Would it be better to grow half in one side and another the other side and then the 2 will benefit the soil?
I just don't know how to go about it.
I have also been adding loads of perlite and Coco core to try to help add airation as it Peetfree or reduced one or other. And it's becoming very hard with the dry season.so its not taking in water well.
I thought compost was gold but only if it's got goodness in it is what I'm learning.
Sorry for essay.
Please reply when you have time and please try to explain how I can help my garden do better. Thanks in advance
Hi, Huw. I really appreciate your videos. I know you do a lot of experimentation. I'm wondering if you've done any experimenting with the number of slugs and the impact on your main crop when using chop and drop. I use only compost or bark for mulch to avoid the slugs, but seeing you do this in Wales makes me wonder!
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Trick I learned from my aunt for growing radish is to multi sow 3 or 4 seeds in a grid pattern as this means you don’t waste seeds through thinning and can stagger your harvest over a longer period of time
Hello, could anyone mention tillage cover crops for hotter climates?
What a wonderful, informative video, thanks Huw
Is it good time to plant cover crops now
How about parsley as a cover crop? Mine flowered and self seeded and filled up my entire garden bed. I chop it down when I want to plant in that area. It's also overflowed onto the pathways. Any benefits when chopped and left on surface?
Hi – I’ve got buckwheat, winter tares and crimson clover growing on one bed at the moment. Would you recommend cutting them down now rather than leaving them till the new year? Thanks.
Will the roots of the cover crop not damage the garlic bulbs Huw?
An old farmer told me that back before buying fertilizers was the common thing, he would plant oats on newly acquired land to get it ready for a wheat crop the following year
I don't know the science behind it but apparently the wheat was almost double normal yield that next year when he did that
He told me about another guy who used to grow a clover crop every few years and never bothered with fertilizer, but that was a long time ago
That sponsor message was a bit long tbh.
I am looking for cover crop for old ranch land. We are zone 4 with only 18 inches of rain a year. Elevation is 6,300 feet. Winter wheat is commonly grown here but looking for other options. Ideas?
Is buckwheat a good cover crop to use in a bed I plan to grow tomatoes in next season?
I have an allotment in Holland and its clay soil and I'm trying japanese oats for the first time as a cover crop
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