How WINTER KILL Cover Crop Builds Soil. See how this amazing Daikon radish does it. By opening the soil up to air and water. The Radish will freeze do the the temp and then add organic matter and water back to the building soil.
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This is Daikon radish, but several times you said "these oilseed radishes". Does it means you just made a mistake, or you have one plot with Daikon radishes and second with oilseed radishes?
Did you have any issues with Chinese spotted lantern ?
Excellent video. When did you put seed in ground?
DAMN that's a big hole. I planted a bunch of these this year. Most of them too late to get very big, but some of them (that got planted earlier) are indeed WHOPPERs. Thank you, sir, for all of your efforts here. You've helped many of us.
I'm trying 5 different types of green fertilizer and the dycoon radishes are going to happen next season shur they are great but some might go wild and cause weeds so baby steps crimson clover ,buckwheat , winter wheat and fenterl and black eye peas shur they have a place and I'm hopeful to learn.
Thanks Mark my garden is improving and important and you are helping
Great job
You will have good infiltration
Hey Mark, I was wondering if you are knowledgeable on corn gluten meal it has alot of benefits for fertilizer and weeds Lu's can be Organic I seem to only find information on lawns but nothing for gardens any insight to do a video possibly?
You definitely need to do a follow up video on the spring! Great video, thanks.
how are you going to clean up those for the next crops (corns?)? pull all the radishs out as food or to compost? or leave everything in the soil as is and cover it with another layer of compost next spring? Thanks
Zone 6b as well. I spread cover crop seed September 29th the first time.
Then on October 6th I spread it in other beds that weren't available before. Also over seeded the first areas.
Started a garden diary on my phone this year as well. I didn't in the past because I got hung up on thinking it needed to be very structured and organized. Now I just make notes whenever I want regardless of how simple it is.
Worms like the bacteria that eat the radishes. Typical gray worms love mint and wild, sweet grasses that grow by sending their roots all over the place. They curl around the roots. Grass is a little hard to pull up, but mint is very easy. I like to plant it all over the garden and turn the whole thing into a worm farm. Doesn't cost a thing and you get the most beautiful soil you ever saw.
I definitely miss out on some late season produce but I think the success of my spring crops following up my winter rye/clover cover crop more than makes up for it. I will have to try some tillage radishes one of these years just as an experiment.
@ around 10 minutes into the video, the seeds forming seem to be flower buds you pointed at that would eventually turn into flowers and then form pods which are very much edible, then the seeds grow inside of the pods. The plant eventually dries down and you can collect the dry seedpods to thrash/winnow to harvest for sprouting and sowing next season. It looks a little late in the season for these ones to get to that point though. I seem to now, after a few years planting them following your recommendation, have them growing through the garden at different stages all year. The spring ones seem to bolt early summer and make no substantial root, but many pods. The ones starting later seem to make a large radish and many fewer pods.
Mark, you are a national treasure!
But wouldn't the Mychroiza Fungi and probably other microorganisms got distrubed when you pull out those roots plants?
Amazing way to improve soil! My first thought was animal feed, and I was surprised to hear you're leaving these gorgeous roots in the ground, although I now understand why. Still, if it was me, I'd pull a big wheelbarrow full and treat my livestock. Thanks for a very interesting video.
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you Mark!