Cover Crop for Beginners. The easy way to boost your soil.

:40 Cover Crop Intro
1:50 Hairy Vetch
4:50 Crimson Clover
8:45 Garden Cover Crop Blend
14:00 Terminating your cover crop

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[emkn]

Once I figured out what cover crops are, I realized that they’re readily available as bags of legumes and spice seeds at grocery stores and deer food plot mixes at farm/feed stores. Very inexpensive and readily available locally ✔️It’s a fun experiment!

[Vince-mlgw]

This is the best explanation of cover crops I’ve ever heard. Outstanding!

[davidk]

My problem with vetch was that when it seeded out, it became a weed. The birds spread it all over my garden, and being deep rooted, it is very difficult to pull out. It took me 2 years to get rid of it. I much prefer peas and oats for a fall cover crop.

[jenhartman]

Good info, thx. Luv your shirt! “Require sun & water.” Same!

[paullilliott]

very valuable -especially the planting demonstration.
Since we now live in a world of crazies who want to shut down small farms and even home gardens, you may wish to add that you are SEQUESTERING ATMOSPHERIC CARBON!

[tarah]

It was so hard for me to find youtube gardeners from Arkansas zone 7b! I'm starting a garden on some very hard and depleted soil so you're videos have helped me a ton. I now know what I need to do this fall to get spring started off on the right foot next year. Thank you!

[chelseycarrillo]

Thank you! I have watch a handful of videos on cover crops and this made it easy to understand and less intimidating. Other videos leave out what to do after you plant the seeds. Thank you

[pthomps]

Your video was very good cover crop information, thank you. It's strange how hard it is to get comprehensive info: seeding the cover to planting your vegetables into the terminated crop. So tanks for the tutorial.

[stephenhope]

Good info on the cover crops. I have 7 planters that are 50 gallons each and a redwood bed 20 feet x 4 feet. I like to rotate cover crops in the 7 planters at 1 year increments. No hard frost here in 9b Sacramento. I cut and drop the cover crop in December and start a new one right away.Thanks for the video.

[marcuslarson]

Great video. I have gardened most of my life, but I just started to cover crop. I have hauled in hay/straw for years, but that could be replaced by cover cropping. Thanks for sharing your experience!

[dougbas]

Well done. I am zone 5 and cover crops have different timing but equally beneficial. Thank you.

[Sasklahoma]

I’m in 7b as well. Was just trying to figure out what I was going to do with my raised beds thank you so much for the tips

[cathymccall]

Thank you! This was the lesson of the month! So very informative and exactly the subjects I was intent on learning about. I agree, cover crop is where it's at for sure!

[patriciamiller]

This year is my first trying out cover crops. I got the garden mix from True Leaf - so it was great to see what I could expect from it! :) Thanks so much for sharing your experiences.

[honeydew]

Super excellent video. Buying hairy vetch, garden cover crop blend, and subscribing! Thanks for your channel!

[peterstevens]

Summer is about to begin here in New Zealand ... 🙂🙂🙂

[phylissharp]

Great information, thank you! I will be using them for the first time and actually just ordered the garden blend yesterday!

[makeyourlifeeasier]

Very nice video! Cover crop info that I haven't seen elsewhere.

[barbaracoates]

I love to plant kale in fall to have greens for chickens. I let some of it go to flower for the early spring birds and insects.

[deepost]

Year one of my learning about cover crops. I chose a mix of crimson clover, barley, and oats and out it in at the end of Aug. it has taken off beautifully and in 7B my frost date will be near the end of Nov. I’ll se how things go, but my plan is to mulch it with the mower in spring and let it decay in place. Part of what I am learning is the mix of plants have different root levels. They interact with the microbes to be more effective when combined tha when a mono crop.