MIgardener: There’s No Wrong Time to Do This But ALWAYS When Your Soil is Bare
Applying a cover crop can be vital to retaining soil quality and ensuring less weeds. Here’s why a cover crop is good for your garden, and the different cover crops available. 
Thank you so much. This was the information I was looking for. I am currently trying cover crops and thought I was maybe making mistake planting cover crops in spring. Trying to improve my clay soil in garden area that was recently old farm field.
BTW in WI we are like at least 95% green over here. And you look like the opposite 95% Brown. Unless you recorded this video 2 months ago? These two weeks of May really kicked in hard! ANYWAYS HAVING A VERY WONDERFUL SEASON!
You might be underestimating cover crops still – even the "non-nitrogen fixers" still pump up to 40% of their photosynthates into the soil – that's a ton of sugars for the mycorhyzal fungus and bacteria, building the soil and even fixing some amount of nitrogen through rhizophagy – it's pretty new science, it's really cool
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Winter rye summer kills here in Alabama. Ty for your video
Rye grass has good depth of roots and really helps form good aggregates in the soil.
I was wondering why a lot of the local corn crops were all dandelions this year! This is so interesting!!
Multi seed cover crop is the general consensus to get the best bang for your buck
my favorite cover crop is marigolds
I have bees and fruit trees. I use food plot clover seed for deer. It's a mix of 3 clovers. It fixes nitrogen, and the bees love it.
Thank you so much. This was the information I was looking for. I am currently trying cover crops and thought I was maybe making mistake planting cover crops in spring. Trying to improve my clay soil in garden area that was recently old farm field.
Thank you very much Luke for helping understand cover crops and it's importance.
Red clover blooms can be added to salads! Looks pretty and adds neutrinos.
BTW in WI we are like at least 95% green over here. And you look like the opposite 95% Brown. Unless you recorded this video 2 months ago? These two weeks of May really kicked in hard! ANYWAYS HAVING A VERY WONDERFUL SEASON!
It seems my favorite cover crop is weeds.
What is a good option that will germinate later in the fall after veggies have finished for the year?
You might be underestimating cover crops still – even the "non-nitrogen fixers" still pump up to 40% of their photosynthates into the soil – that's a ton of sugars for the mycorhyzal fungus and bacteria, building the soil and even fixing some amount of nitrogen through rhizophagy – it's pretty new science, it's really cool
How do I get rid of the weeds in my established orchard before planting a cover crop?
Buckwheat is a great cover drop
I plant rye grass for winter in the south. It dies in summer.
12:46 pardon!? 😮
This was really helpful.
I like the way this information can work on a farm or in a small garden