How Not to Cover Crop

This video was made possible in part through a grant from Southern SARE, and answers the following: How to grow great cover crops, how to establish cover crops, different cover crops, mistakes in cover cropping and more.

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This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award number 2020-38640-31521 through the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program under project number LS21-348. USDA is an equal opportunity employer and service provider.” The goal with this grant is to provide context and technical detail for the four principles of soil health.

[myfitstoreuk]

I made all the mistakes you mentioned! Its my first year gardening and im learning the hard way by the looks of it!

[fourdayhomestead]

I agree with the cover crop mess. The radish work great! Mowed before flower & left to freeze out (zone 4) breaks up my heavy clay soil. Drainage is so much better!

[camerondrew]

A video I wish I watched way sooner in my process. The learning continues!!!

[johnnmartens]

I use solarization I don’t like to use plastic but it works so good I mow the cover crop down then cover with clear plastic and it kills the cover crop and any weeds I don’t have any weed pressure till mid august it works really well

[rufia]

Yay for no-till grower videos! Spring is here where I live (short season) and I'm looking forward to the season and to your content! Even on my backyard growing scale, I find it informative and helpful.

[KansasGardenGuy]

Great to see you back Jesse! Always enjoy your content and thanks for the information.

[nymeriagloves]

i bought a 37 species mix with basically everything to put on this year. my plan for terminating in spring is try things and check what works lol

[WiLNorCaL]

I really appreciate your videos as it proves to me that I have no freaking idea what I'm doing with this market garden hooey!! :/

[clivesconundrumgarden]

Excellent Jesse, we're very new to gardening but last fall we plant hairy vetch and Daikin. Made it through our winter (9A) and we chopped it yesterday. We're leaving most of it but are also playing around with mulching !!
Excellent info, good to see you back
Cheers from Victoria Canada

[matiasishere]

Termination of cover crops.... let’s do a whole video on that. And maybe some visual I’m 2 years into cover cropping in my garden and it’s mostly a but the worms and the bugs are coming back so I know I’m on the right track! Thanks Jesse

[lisamcdonald]

So great to see you again!! Another great topic

[matains]

I usually broadcast my seeds and it works fine if it rains right after that, both in terms of seed to soil contact and water availability. If it doesn't rain enough though, those seeds can sit there for weeks and last year my mustard was just over my knees by the time i had to plant winter garlic.

[finagill]

My experience is that daikon radishes do a great job of breaking up soil. My yard just laughs at tillers and yet daikon radishes grow well. They getting fairly large in hard soil. They get massive in loose soil.

[koreanature]

My best friend, that's a great video. I will always cheer for you in Korea I'm looking forward to a great video. Have a nice day.

[sandrarichardson]

Just becoming aware of the usefulness of cover crops in my little garden. Thanks for putting this together and NOT making it an extremely long video. Subscribed and looking forward to going through your videos for more information. Jesus bless.

[christ]

Always wondered what cover crop is best for certain situations? Thank you.

[burldawg]

Just ordered your book though you're website I'm pretty excited thank you.

[ZZ_Trop]

I use a blue 30 gal barrel half full of water to roll my wildflower patch installations. Seed to soil contact is 👌.

[teatimetraveller]

Great info. Worth mentioning that many overwintered grasses will prohibit germination in the spring. You need to wait 2-4 weeks after terminating before sowing.

[zachnordlund]

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