Cover Crops Are An Amazing Tool For Organic Gardeners! The use of Cover Crops in a modern organic garden is both easy and fruitful. These living mulches condition and enrich spent soils, break up hard-packed clay mixes, prevent pests from laying their eggs, add nutrients back into the top layers of the soil profile, and even eliminate and prevent weeds!
Join me today as we plant one of the world’s most popular Cover Crops, Fall Rye. From start to finish, I show you how to prep the beds, seeding density and application, growth rates, and the top 5 reasons why you need a Cover Crop in your life today!
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Please share with your fellow gardeners! If growing a fall garden full of delicious organic veggies for you and your family is something you're passionate about, consider joining our Facebook Group called "Growing, Better". Everyone is welcome and its one of the fastest-growing communities online. Share, learn, GROW!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GrowingBetter
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If you're just starting out gardening in the fall of 2020, this inexpensive set of tools from Amazon can get you and your organic operation up and running this year as well as prepare your gardens for fall! I know there is a fevered and renewed interest in gardening and many of you are seasoned vets. But remember that there's a whole population out there that hasn't gardened before. Let's help them out and encourage as much as possible! Affiliate links below:
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I use a shredding machine to ground all my roses, bux and other decorative wood cuts, it can be used directly as compost.
In Europe, "Luzerne" is preferred as cover crop.
Sorry I am a novice to this. When you say cover crop do you mean we don't have to kill the Rye? I mean can I jus dig a hole amongst the cover crop and transplant my tomato plant right in the midst of the cover crop?
how about wheat for the cover crop??
I used red russian kale for a cover. Of course nothing germinated yet because as soon as I seeded and put a heavy layer of straw over it, it snowed about one foot of snow. I'm hoping for a early spring kale crop. It's snowing again today and winter has come to my mountains. Will the kale sprout and grow this spring? In your experience or opinion do you think it will? Either way the seed was cheap I got 5lb bag of it for $13.00
I am curious to see what happens in spring with this kale.
This is not a good option for southern states. The cover crop will still be growing long past the time to plant vegetables and it would need to be weeded out. Hardwood mulch is our best solution.
Thanks for this video! Just the info I needed!
Jeff do you have any insights on edible cover crops?
Thank you so much, will try this
Can I do this with wheatgrass? Can't find rye seeds here
I was told that when doing cover crops, avoid rye and clovers as they can be a pain to get rid of in the long run (even worse in a no dig garden as you don't dig stuff in)
Is there any truth in that?
Do basically all you're saying to plant a cover crop. Can you also include pros and cons of different cover crops and what to do with them in spring when we would want to plant our beds. Discuss the different benefits of rye, oats, no till radishes, gold or yellow mustard, hairy vetch, etc. Thanks.
Hi! ….so what do you do with it come spring time? Wheat continues to grow in spring, rye doesn't?
Most interesting way of enriching the soil. Can cover crops be used in zone 5a ? The first frost is usually around mid October and we get snow around November. In the spring, we have snow until late April.
cover crops explained so well.
Nice video! Insane planting density on that rye! I've had nice lush beds with maybe 200-250 lb/acre rate (2-2.5 grams per sq ft). still about one plant per inch.
I watch a lot of YouTube gardening videos and hear all the time about cover crops but never understood the concept till now! You’re such a great teacher! Thank you! I’ve been using the planting methods you demonstrate with the planting soil placed right on top of the mulch litter and the straw…have fantastic results!
What about perennials? I haven't started yet but I love the concept of cover crops… In permaculture isn't the focus on perennials? Do cover crops play a role there?
Great video. I was planning on experimenting with cover crops this year. I made a point of ordering the seed with my winter seed order, so I have them on hand as soon as my crops are harvested. Looking forward to your spring video on terminating and bed prep. Cheers bro!
Jeez lol. Just so everyone knows. You don't need to lay out 2" of new soil or potting mix. Lol. Just shake them across the ground evenly. The cover of the previous stuff will provide the perfect germination conditions.
If you're only doing a tiny bed like his, that's one thing. But this isn't even close to accessable for most gardeners. Grow cover crops but skip adding a crap ton of soil. Also if you truly want the most benefit do a blend of different things. you'll have benefits with just growing a monoculture but anytime you can grow a polyculture it's better. some good information in this video, just wanted to let everyone know that you don't need to go to such extreme lengths
I didn't know Kenny Powers was a farmer
What do you do in spring? How do you clear bed with out messing up soil?
Hi from Ukraine! Thank – it was informative and clear! However – I have one question – the rye will be growing fast next spring… what to du with it? Just cut and leave the roots inside the soil?
Borago is a verry good oen put nitogen into the soil
How does the winter cover crop not become "weeds" in the spring when you want your garden back for tomatoes and lettuce and have a bunch of rye grass turning it into a lawn? I understand the benefits but how do you terminate the rye grass in the spring without applying a bunch of herbicide like conventional farmers do?
sweet….going to try this cover crop ..omg..better late than never
Been considering Winter Rye but have a couple of questions-is this the same Rye used for animal feed, bread and whiskey?
What should we do with it in the spring ?
What are used in Ryagrass or cereal rye