Growing mustard as a cover crop can do amazing things for your garden soil! It can kill harmful nematodes, reduce the presence of soil-borne pests, and even keep weeds from thriving in your backyard garden!
Join as we talk about all the wonderful benefits of a mustard cover crop and how this biofumigation technique can make your gardening so much easier over the long term. We’ll show you how we used this technique in our in-ground backyard garden, but also talk about how you can easily do the same thing in a raised bed or container garden.
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28 Comments
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Thank you for sharing this great video! Mustards are amazing! We live up north with snow still on the ground, so it's SO nice to see you in a warmer climate and able to plant your mustards! I have quite a few more months to wait, so I will enjoy your videos while I wait to make my own!
If I have my mustards growing in a 150 gallon grow bag how deep should I bury the mustards? I'm wanting to get rid of wireworms and nematodes. Thanks
You need to go back to Hoss
Do the chickens enjoy the spicy mustards?
I have never grown a mustard cover crop but I have watched you do this for several years now.
Happy new year!
Happy New Year kind sir! Don’t need to worry about the RKN but I still look forward to the results!
I live in North Carolina zone 7B, and I planted mustard and tillage radishes in a fairly new bed this fall. I had a row cover over it for the arctic blast time, but the wind blew it off over a portion of it. Could I use some of the mustard leaves that are continuing to grow and spread some of them over the bare area? We are not quite as warm as you are, so I don’t know that planting anymore right now would be productive. Thanks for all the great content and advice!
I grew about 200 okra and made money selling it but I won't do it again.
Another option for drying okra is to cut off the mature pods while green and spread them on a mesh/slotted drying rack with good circulation. Your onion rack in your shed is perfect. Cutting the pods off liberates your gardening plot for a cover crop or whatever you need.
Happy New Year to you and the family! 🥳
How much you think them
Dogs paid that kicker.
Ha ha good luck
The Dawg's bucket had me worried the other day. Too close for comfort but it will do. Now back to a more on point question. Are there any crops you would not follow on with in a bed after a bio-fumigation with mustard? And how long does it typically take in your winter for a cover crop of mustard to generally go from seeding to flowering (time to incorporate)? I've never tried it, but it sounds like it would be beneficial in my raised food beds which are all 3'x20'. Thanks
For me it’s Daikon for fall/winter, buckwheat for summer, legume and possibly mustard for spring.
So, for a no till garden, this would not be a benefit as a bio fumigant?
Where can I get that trifecta seed mix?
May I ask where did you go your Mustard seeds?
On behalf of your fans, no need to bother with the shorts, please. Happy New Year to you y'all.
Some years ago, it took me a while to figure out why I wasn't having any luck with tomatoes and okra. But when I pulled them up and researched those "pearls" on the roots, I discovered what root knot nematodes were. I have a feeling you're right about people planting mustard and not knowing the reason, maybe a time-honored method handed down through generations? There is a gentleman nearby that always follows his tomatoes with mustard, but when I spoke with him some time ago, he didn't know what root know nematodes were. Thank you so much for this video!
I've already restarted some cabbage, collards and onions, do you think they will have time to mature before our hot weather hits? I lost quite a few of my younger onions and all the broccoli and collards. I grew the curly leaf mustard and the freeze got it. Travis where did you learn about the mustard fumigation process? Go Dawgs, I'm definitely done with the Gators!
Daikon for me in fall
I recognize that trueleaf market sack.
Great advice on a little-known bio-fumigant technique. I believe you could finish drying the okra pods on an airy rack as long as you run some germination tests before seed distribution. No benefit to drying them on the stalk. Horny Toads opened as 13 point dogs. Get 'er done.
Thanks for a great video. Where did you buy the mustard seed?
Would this be a good time for zone 7a / se Tn? Where are these seeds available? Thanks.
Thanks got the reminder; have a bag in the shed.
Are you not with Hoss Tools any more?
Your Dawgs survived, congrats. I bet you all had a seriously puckered body part up until the botched field goal, we're talking the power to pinch off a piece of Rebar!