Love the many uses of vetch, including culinary. Very important to be open to all the benefits Nature offers. I will be adding to my salad! Great video.
You got my attention with cover crops and sealed me as a subscriber with why you don't use a "tractor" and showed the flail mower underneath and explained why it worked so well! Thanks!
Thanks for your videos your Book and Vieos are our guidelines for our owne little bussiness, as we are switching into this area you helpd us alot !! and where allready able to harvest more then 300 kg this year.
Its not the presence of the nodes that tell you if your fixing nitrogen or not. You must split open the node with your finger nail and verify that it is red inside the node. If it is red then you have the bacteria present and they are actively fixing nitrogen. If it is white then no nitrogen is currently being fixed. Nodes tend to graduate in color over their cycle of the plants life and should end up red. If not then the right association of bacteria that fix the nitrogen for that plant is not present. Just fyi. Love that your showing how to use cover crops. Thank you.
Thank you for this great video. This video has encouraged me to subscribe! I've wondered about the pros and cons of no till/vs till. I can understand the theory behind no till, but I have this instinct that it's good to break up the shallow soil before planting. Thanks for explaining this a bit more. Thanks for your channel.
I was explaining this exact process this week to a new grower at my farm. I have always cover cropped after allium crops (20% of my beds per year) as part of a 5 year rotation to stop white mould in the garlic (bad in Tasmania) Perhaps we could benefit more if I aimed for 5% more beds per year as a minimum eg, 4 year for full green manuring cycle of bed blocks
Definitely, your rotary mower will chop up the cover crops to speed up decomposition. The flail mower just completely pulverizes the cover crop into smaller bits so they break down much faster. 👍
This would probably only work for transplants, not direct seeding. In compost, seeds would dry out rapidly in compost because there is so much air between aggregates compared to soil. And mowing wouldn’t necessarily kill the vetch. That requires the power harrow or tiller implements. Without killing the crop first. it would require a very thick layer of compost, I’d say 3-4” or more, so that the mowed crop would not easily penetrate through. Basically you’d be using the compost AS your tarp, providing occultation over the soil. The last thing you’d want is a cover crop growing as weeds in your cash crop, after it has been supercharged with inches of compost.
@@goodboysongs to add further, Vetch is very hard to terminate via mowing unless it's in the reproductive stage of growth, otherwise, it comes back readily. That is why I don't use vetch anymore in my cover crop mixes. I use peas, beans, and biennial and annual clovers instead (almost as good (or in the case of some of the biennial sweet covers, just as good), but way easier to manage). I still have volunteer vetch in my fields from the last time I used it and didn't get it killed 100%, and that was 4 years ago. Shallow tillage (1" into the soil) is a better way to terminate vetch if you don't have time to wait until it's flowering (to mow), or time to tarp it.
thanks.. subtitles say he says "thatch" which isn't even a plant, let alone a legume. was confused clover is one more popularly used all over, but the best one for biomass and nitrogen fixing is sunn hemp
@@spacemanspiffy6596 All attachments ride on the ground to be honest. You're not going to be able to mow while holding the Flail Mower off the ground, it just isn't feasible. The flail JM is using in this video is the RollerBlade model. The rear roller on the mower is what determines the height of the cut. The height adjustment crank on the top of the mower adjusts the angle of the dome in relation to the roller.
@spacemanspiffy6596 The weight of the engine helps to counterbalance the weight of the mower, so lifting it off the ground when turning around is fairly easy, but it would not be easy to mow while holding the mower off the ground.
Love the many uses of vetch, including culinary. Very important to be open to all the benefits Nature offers. I will be adding to my salad! Great video.
Mix of Sunflowers and vetch and oats and buck wheat and clover as a mix works so well awsome video thanks
You got my attention with cover crops and sealed me as a subscriber with why you don't use a "tractor" and showed the flail mower underneath and explained why it worked so well! Thanks!
Loving all that you're doing! Keep it up JM and crew!
Thanks JM for sharing your knowledge and beautiful video's.
How did farmers in older time start cycling the long cover crops? Graze and then put manure on field?
Thanks for your videos your Book and Vieos are our guidelines for our owne little bussiness, as we are switching into this area you helpd us alot !! and where allready able to harvest more then 300 kg this year.
Excellent video. I use a heavy duty brush cutter to lay down cover crop on about a 1000 sq ft block and it works well.
Good day my friend. Your video is very good, Thanks for helping me relax after a tiring day at work.
Its not the presence of the nodes that tell you if your fixing nitrogen or not. You must split open the node with your finger nail and verify that it is red inside the node. If it is red then you have the bacteria present and they are actively fixing nitrogen. If it is white then no nitrogen is currently being fixed. Nodes tend to graduate in color over their cycle of the plants life and should end up red. If not then the right association of bacteria that fix the nitrogen for that plant is not present. Just fyi. Love that your showing how to use cover crops. Thank you.
Thank you for this great video. This video has encouraged me to subscribe! I've wondered about the pros and cons of no till/vs till. I can understand the theory behind no till, but I have this instinct that it's good to break up the shallow soil before planting. Thanks for explaining this a bit more. Thanks for your channel.
I was explaining this exact process this week to a new grower at my farm. I have always cover cropped after allium crops (20% of my beds per year) as part of a 5 year rotation to stop white mould in the garlic (bad in Tasmania) Perhaps we could benefit more if I aimed for 5% more beds per year as a minimum eg, 4 year for full green manuring cycle of bed blocks
Cover crops, no till great, I do same. Now, how to get rid of weeds, like nut sedge, other than dig out the nuts one by one?? Thx
Really loved your video! I'm curious what legumes you are using?
What is the green machine with yellow wheels in the barn? Just wondering if anyone knows
Are you using animals in the termination are cover crops? And if so can you give some insight as to the pros and cons?
Can I use a rotary mower( what I have for now) until I get to the point ($$) of using the flail? Then shallow roto-till into soil
Definitely, your rotary mower will chop up the cover crops to speed up decomposition. The flail mower just completely pulverizes the cover crop into smaller bits so they break down much faster. 👍
legume aren't the only nitrogen fixers. there are some other plants that do too
cover crop dalek 7:20
Could I mow the vetch , and then put a thick layer of well decomposed horse manure if I don't have time to tarp it? Thank you
This would probably only work for transplants, not direct seeding. In compost, seeds would dry out rapidly in compost because there is so much air between aggregates compared to soil. And mowing wouldn’t necessarily kill the vetch. That requires the power harrow or tiller implements. Without killing the crop first. it would require a very thick layer of compost, I’d say 3-4” or more, so that the mowed crop would not easily penetrate through. Basically you’d be using the compost AS your tarp, providing occultation over the soil. The last thing you’d want is a cover crop growing as weeds in your cash crop, after it has been supercharged with inches of compost.
@@goodboysongs to add further, Vetch is very hard to terminate via mowing unless it's in the reproductive stage of growth, otherwise, it comes back readily. That is why I don't use vetch anymore in my cover crop mixes. I use peas, beans, and biennial and annual clovers instead (almost as good (or in the case of some of the biennial sweet covers, just as good), but way easier to manage). I still have volunteer vetch in my fields from the last time I used it and didn't get it killed 100%, and that was 4 years ago. Shallow tillage (1" into the soil) is a better way to terminate vetch if you don't have time to wait until it's flowering (to mow), or time to tarp it.
thanks.. subtitles say he says "thatch" which isn't even a plant, let alone a legume. was confused
clover is one more popularly used all over, but the best one for biomass and nitrogen fixing is sunn hemp
So hairy vetch is edible? Hum I would of never I’m gonna have to tr it
Hey how much do you think the bcs with bush mower weighs?
The BCS Model 749 and 30" Flail Mower (shown in this video) weigh about 450 lbs total.
So 225lb per tire unless the front attachment rides on the ground? @@BCSAmerica
@@spacemanspiffy6596 All attachments ride on the ground to be honest. You're not going to be able to mow while holding the Flail Mower off the ground, it just isn't feasible. The flail JM is using in this video is the RollerBlade model. The rear roller on the mower is what determines the height of the cut. The height adjustment crank on the top of the mower adjusts the angle of the dome in relation to the roller.
@spacemanspiffy6596 The weight of the engine helps to counterbalance the weight of the mower, so lifting it off the ground when turning around is fairly easy, but it would not be easy to mow while holding the mower off the ground.
Which BCS tractor is that?
It's the 749 with an electric start!
"Green manure salad"
Definitely don't call it that when its served.
When you cut wetch in pieces,you 're loosing nitrogene
Green Manure Salad doesn't sound that good I hope you call it something else in your Resteraunt
hmmm, wrong market garden video