Spring Garden Prep 2020 | Cover crops in your Backyard Garden.
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Thank you for this insightful video! Last fall/winter I grew a cover crop mix that included daikon radish. I terminated after 3 months by cutting at soil level and just laying the cuttings on the ground. After a couple of weeks I checked to see if any of the radishes were decomposing, and they were not. So I pulled many of them up, cut them into pieces and put them into the soil. Probably, I should have just laid them on the top, but I am wondering what you would recommend?
Hi, Mark, I've been enjoying your videos from the beginning.
This one really caught my attention because it is where I'm at in my soil building. I have four beds. Roughly 2,000 sqft 20 x 100 I want to use one for each season. So I'm looking for a combination cover crop. That would be appropriate for each growing season so I can terminate it in time for the next planting season.
I am in Mid, Tennessee so I would have to time it correctly as well. Any suggestions ?
i have that same blue foam pad. my brother got it for me for xmas so i could kneel in the garden 🙂
Mark, Thank you so very much on sharing you experiences and I am always looking for a microscope for sale at a yard sale …
Excellent video; I wonder if our deep and continious snow cover here in zone 3, which insulates the ground, would allow the soil microbs to work closer to the surface during the winter?
Thank you Mark, This is just what I was needing. You gave me confidence.
I to am in 6b zone, and for years added chopped up leaves into my garden, around mid November. April I would till under and lots of worms, but just as you have showed, soil would be clumps. So I planted for the first time a cover crop in late September. So, to my question. The cover crop is much taller than yours. Can I use a "chop n drop" and cover with cardboard, since I don't have leaves?
Really a good video. I'm happy to have found you.
Wow,this is an excellent video of the soil food web. Well done and thank you.
Mark:
Question: since I just moved into a new house and I’m just starting out on a new backyard garden that is only hard packed dirt and weeds should I just focus on cover crops the first season or should I try and grow all my favorite veggies like tomatoes etc. I would really like a garden this summer but I also want to do what is best for growing soil in a new hard packed yard.
Right now I have a large (300sq ft) garden area covered in approximately 200 trash bags of fall leaves mixed with aged chicken manure with red wrigglers. I have also built several other hugculture beds that I’m hoping to grow in this summer. Since I am also in zone 6b in Flagstaff AZ, My plan was to start snap peas as a cover crop next month, then I would put in all my other veggies in May. What do you think. Should I just grow cover crops only this summer?
Thank you so much! I have learned so much from your channel.
Silas
Makes me wish I had planted a cover crop. I guess there's always next season…
Great demo – thanks!
I have 2 questions:
1) if I have perennial bed e.g. strawberries – should I still attempt to put winter rye in between for the sake of it's root depth and decaying root organic matter and how to implement this (i.e. how to seed it in the fall and than to kill it in the spring)?
2) if I would stop seeding cover crop or adding mulch for a few years (but would still not till) would the soil reverse back to it is compacted and low OM state? Or could the soil in perennial beds (such as strawberries) "maintain itself" ?
Thank you!!
Hello, recently I have been seeing wild onions growing in my backyard , around my newly planted fruit trees. Are they doing bad to my garden? If so how do I get rid of it?
Great knowledge and information as usual! One thing I’ve noticed on your videos is that you tend to be off screen most of the time. It would be nice to see is more action video as opposed to picture style with you describing. But I will say I’ve learned more from your videos in the past month or so that I found you than any other channel. Keep up the good work! Great to see the live experiments and watch failures in action (on a few occasions)! Seems I learn the most from the things that go wrong.
hey what do you think, ive sowed cover crop into freshly spread compost in my bed and then covered it with about 2 inches of woodchips. will i have a supercharged garden this year or is the cover crop gonna fail?
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Great informative series of videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Made me remember soil biology and what to and not to do with the soil. Robin.
I used leaf mulch on top of the ground all winter in my back yard garden. I have some crimson clover seed. should I throw it in the garden now before planting to start a summer cover crop. Then continue to use the leaf mulch around the seeded rows and transplants.
Can you speak to the irrigation of cover crops? We have drip irrigation in our rows, and I don’t think anything will grow outside the line unless I install a different system.
love the videos I have a question about companion planting and crop rotation are they necessary with these methods? on a smaller scale
Wow! Perfect explanation that cleared some of my questions. Thank you. Saving this video for re-reviews.
Really enjoyed this. We have moved from a till to a no till garden with fairly heavy mulch (in areas). We need to add the use of cover crops into our garden. Our soil has improved tremendously since we quit tilling, but it is still not where it needs to be. Very interesting, thanks!! -Lea
Thanks. I had great Rye results and I think I am going "all in" with it next winter.
Thank you Mark
What would happen if the cover crop is not terminated?
If I could understand what happens when the plants are there both together,how does it affect and why?
If you can make a video explaining that and also the same question goes to weeds, what happens to the plants, to the soil and why.
Thank you again for all your great videos.
You're the best…
Mark, I’m also zone 6B in New Jersey —-next fall, when I do a cover crop – do I want some thing that winter kills like common oat; or something that is hardier that does not winterkill?
This was beautiful. So this is winter rye? Any specific type?
Do you terminate and cover the winter rye just around the area of your planting hole, or the entire section where the rye is growing?
no matter how many times I go over your videos, there is always something new to learn. Thanks!
Excellent video! Just wondering, if we are planting full rows of seeds within the cover crop, not actual plants from seedlings, how would we remove the cover crop in long swaths without breaking the soil up or tilling? Also, with your leaf mulch that was in your second garden shown in the video, what do you do with that mulch? Leave it in place and plant within it or remove it and compost it, or…? I have straw down on my garden over winter but I'm not sure if I should leave it or remove it, plant, then put new mulch down? Thanks in advance!
When can you plant other vegetable seeds after winter rye?
Thank you. your videos have been so helpful. I need to plant cover crops and it is almost frost time, but this gives me hope that they still may grow for the Spring if planted late. This is the best video I have seen to explain all of this. I have asked many professionals and could not get answers. Thank you!
Mark, please Do one on Spring and Summer cover crops similar to this one. Can you plant them as under plantings and which are best for summer? I am getting a much better understanding of cover crops from you.
great explanation and example of how amazing a cover crop can benefit and build the soil. I have just planted my winter rye cover crop for the first time. Looking forward to next year's garden already. Thank you.
Excellent Example Mark.
A Dilemma here is it don't always Freeze, and Rarely get hard Freeze.
As soon as it gets cool enough to Plant. My plan is to stagger cover crops with veggies right in same row, at same time.
Lots of Experiments coming this Fall. 2022
Thanks Again