NO Till SPRING Cover Crop Planting. Prep for 2020 Backyard Garden.
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Good video; especially the slides. I plant peas with my potatoes and they clime the potato plants. Please tell me if I am thinking about this correctly; The Nitrogen nodes on the pea plant roots will share some the Nitrogen with other plants that are planted with the peas until the peas start to flower or form fruit and then the pea plant will start using up the Nitrogen from its root nodes its self. There may be some residual Nitrogen left in the soil after the peas are done but not much and not for long. Is this correct?
Very interesting video thanks for making it. I'll have to be better next year in the winter months. I at least put leaves on top of most of the beds and let the plant roots of the dead plants stay in the bed. It's all about learning been doing this for long time but I will always be learning.
Hi Mark, it's still February will these actually germinate at this time of the year?
Just wanted to say thank you and bless you for what you have done with your channel……..you enlightened me! I watched your videos and it completely changed the way I thought about soil and gardening – I had many 'ah hah' moments……..thanks for putting so much effort into your presentations and really caring about explaining it well to people. You could make a video every day about just what you are doing and I would watch them all!!!!
That's a cracking idea! Definitely one to try on some new beds.
That is a very economical Idea Mark, planting peas and tomatoes in close quarter both plants are productive producing food. One feeding and enhancing the growth of the other. Lovely bird what is it. Thanks for the video.
Great timing with this video. I was think of planting field peas before I plant potatoes. Your advise to plant peas with the potato works great. So I thought if I plant peas ahead of the potatoes I might get a jump on soil health. Now, you have given me even more ideas. And great idea to use a more tasty pea for your cover crop. Thanks Mark.
That's a great idea Mark! Well done! I'm going to do this in a couple of large containers before planting Tomatoes in them.
I'm planting Alaska Early peas here in 7a, and experimenting with an ecto/arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculate blend – about 5 days back, I mixed up a dose with a gallon of water, and added a few handfuls of cracked corn to another gallon, heat pasteurized it (the corn), and stirred that in .. now, I have a bucket with 2 gallons of water, milky-white with mycellium that I can spread throughout the garden. I'm considering saving a portion of it, expanding with more water, and feeding it again, to see if I can keep the culture going, like a sourdough starter!
For summer cover crop in hot area, Sun Hemp (in the pea family) is a great grower. It will grow 6-8 feet in 60 days.
Always great videos!
Over in Australia, really enjoying your videos, thanks for going out of your way for posting such great information.
Thanks Mark, great video!
I planted clover last spring as a cover crop in my no till hugelcuture mounds and must have over done it. 😬 Nothing but a couple tomato plants wanted to grow well at all. I've since flattened the garden and planted a mess of pumpkins from last year's seeds. I'll be moving my garden to boxes in a better spot in the yard this spring. Surely there is a ratio where too much nitrogen works against us.
What was the herb you mention at the beginning?
Yeah yeah forget about it it's joisey
Subbed. Gardening on the edge of the Duffield Loam, here in southern Franklin Co., PA.
I grow in raised beds in Hawaii with year round good weather. Is it beneficial to always have a cover crop going nonstop or should I do cycles of smothering the cover crop with mulch, letting the cover crop decay, then plant a new cover crop. Which is more beneficial? I’m perpetually growing 24/7 and immediately replacing my harvested plant with no fallow period In between.
Great tip. Could i plant peas in beds and then knock them down for green manure when i plant veg. The reson i ask is i could use the cover crop in all my beds but dont need to harvest that many peas.
Im looking forward to spring planting. Not much of a winter here in Ontario, hopefully a good run of maple syrup over the next 3 weeks. Then spring. Cheers
I’ve always struggled with birds and cover crops. Unless I plant something in late fall the birds watch me and find the seed. They’ve actually searched through the mulch I’ve laid down and gotten all the seeds before. They’re awful. Have you had any problems like this? How should I get around it? Frost seeding maybe?
I left my spent tomatoes, peppers, broccoli and Kale in the ground in the fall plus there is a row of straw berries along with my raspberries. The ground is covered with ground up maple leaves covering about 90% of the soil which seems very rich from years of adding compost and tilling it in. Does it make sense to peel back the leaves and put in Crimson clover before planting the veggies in March. I have some seed left over from last year. Then add peas around tomato, peppers, broccoli, lettice, spinach, bush beans, raspberries, strawberries, cucumber and onions. I don't have much luck with squash unfortunately. I love spaghetti squash. I guess I should do a soil test. All I have room for is about a 20×20 garden in partial shade but it does get a fair amount during the long days of May through August. I want to thank you for your videos. I have learned a great deal and no longer till or add compost. Next fall I am going to get the winter rye going.
I love watching your videos and have for a long time, but in practice i still find myself struggling with this concept. No till farmers use herbicide to kill off their covercrop before sowing and i cant do this. If we then go with the transplanting approach, how do you get things to grow properly in a mesh/jungle of covercrop and weeds? It always stunts the growth for me due to competition
Great tip Mark, going to try that Peas with Tomato plants.. it makes sense, Thanks!
Awesome job Mark! I planted some cover crop in last 2 weeks as well. From one NJ gardener to another, wishing for a good season this year 😎
Can you please say how your cattle panel raised beds are doing? trying to see if I should do the same finally. Thank you.
Thank-you for posting this! Very timely!
Hello Mark, I always learn something new in your videos, many thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Good evening Mark. I have a question about the sugar snap peas in the tomato bed. Do the peas need to be terminated before planting tomatoes in them. Thanks again for sharing gardening wisdom.
Looks like I'll be doing a lot more gardening this year since the authorities strongly recommend to stay home… I don't know if I should be thanking that extremely contagious virus…
Love the close-ups of the root and the Mycorrhiza ☝🤓💚👍
Hi Mark, Could you just plant the tomatoes right thru the plug? And btw, great video of our friend Mr cardinal. 🙂
Mark will letting the peas fruit cause the nitrogen to be used up rather than added? Same for other legumes? In cover cropping legumes so many say to knock it out before going to seed?
How long after the sugarpeas do we plant tomato seed
Hi great vid again! So I want to start using cover crops but need to know when you plant in the fall then let's say cut in spring and no till. Do you need then to plant another spring cover crop to last through till fall again or will the dropped crop stay as a mulch till fall?
Hope that makes sense lol
You can also eat the pea greens! I love them!
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Since my plot is small (and therefore wouldn’t cost too much) would it be advisable to plant peas etc late in the season in zone 7a to achieve benefits in Spring?
So for a bigger product is better to till a little bit not to deep just to loose the ground a little bit, than spread the seeds and use a cultipacker to push the seeds on the ground. Why not one just tell you that.
Mark, does compost or leaf mold turn into soil if you plant a cover crop in it? Also too how late in the season can I plant a cover crop for winter in zone 6a ?
I have learned so much from your channel, very detailed. what is a good source for planting timeline for the garden including cover crops? do you plan to de a series on old grains?
Thank you so much this was so helpful since I did not plant a cover crop. I have been searching for a cover crop to grow. I have a big garden 1. what other cover crops can I plant in the spring? 2. Do I cut the snap peas down when I eat the peas, should i cut them down when they flower to maximize nitrogen? 3. what other cover crop do i follow with with the crops in the summer?
Thanks Mark!!
Do you plan your cover crops every year
Didn't know that you can eat the first 5-7 inches of a pea plant. Can this be done with all peas? Great info!
So pea seeds don't need to be inoculated?
Great info! I'm in the same situation here in March 2022 (mid-Michigan). I have some areas that I didn't get cover crops planted last fall and I'm wondering what my options are for early April planting. Do you have any other suggestions? I'm looking to get as much diversity as possible in my cover crop. I'm considering adding cereal rye and radishes with the peas. I'm not so concerned about harvesting the peas. I want to be able to terminate the cover crop this summer by mowing or crimping.