6 REASONS YOU SHOULD BE GROWING COVER CROPS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2022
- Growing cover crops in the backyard garden has a wide range of benefits. Cover crops provide organic matter for soils, reduce erosion, suppress weeds, and can provide cheap and easy forage for chickens or other livestock.
Join us as we'll tell you all the benefits of growing cover crops and discuss our plans for cool season cover crops this fall and winter. We'll be planting a mix from Green Cover Seed called the "Overwintering Mix," which includes hairy vetch, winter peas, Balansa clover, cereal rye, barley, and rapeseed.
We'll show you how we inoculate and plant the seed so that we get the best germination rates possible and have a dense stand of vegetation on our 30'x35' plot.
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Made peanut butter for the first time this year. Since I only grew boiling peanut varieties this year, I went to the Williston (Florida) Peanut Company, a large peanut processing plant nearby me, and purchased several pounds of raw Virginia type peanuts. I froze half for future use and then roasted the remainder in the oven before processing them into peanut butter --YUM! Never again will I buy commercial brands of peanut butter. There are lots of how-to articles and videos on the internet for those interested in doing this.
I agree that the homemade peanut butter is worlds better!
Appreciate this - zone 7A and originally from the Upstate of SC. It is different in the South. I was wondering about all the straw mulch I see in some of the other gardeners - especially those in California. The straw gives me the heebie jeebies when I think about what I could afford and the potential weed seeds. Appreciate any info. Thanks!
Thank you for this video. I feel like I am educated a lot more now
Thanks for this video, will be using this video and your other ones for cover crops for my hens and meat birds.
Glad it was helpful!
my whole front yard is a top soil-less sandy slope. I've been looking into finding a good cover crop to throw down when I'm ready to try to bring it back to life.
I used peanuts ,a smidge of salted butter and processed in cuisinart. That’s it.
7 tablespoons (99 grams) unsalted butter, melted
For the filling:
8 ounces (227 grams) cream cheese, at room temperature
3/4 cup (94 grams) powdered sugar plus 2 tablespoons, divided
1 cup (270 grams) creamy conventional peanut butter
1 cup (240 grams) heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the topping:
Melted peanut butter
Melted chocolate
Mini Reese’s cups
Peanut butter chips
Thanks!
haha i like to see the ducks
Have you ever tried a broad fork?I believe it would benefit you more than tilling
I actually have one. Not a huge fan of using it though.😂
@@LazyDogFarm yeah its defantly a work out but I like mine alot. I have the treadlite. I paid $250 for it but it will last me a long time, well built
Travis, I let my tiller sit for a whole year. I just sold it. No till is the way and the light as far as I'm concerned. I don't even mow my cover crops. I just walk em down and tarp em.
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One more thing I forgot to ask earlier, can you do video on update on your worm farm?
Sure! We'll try to do that in the next couple weeks.
How far in advance of spring planting should I till in over wintering cover crop?
What are your thoughts about mycorrhizal fungi? I enjoy your show.
The more the better IMO1
I used to make peanut butter for my daughter and I would make her peanut butter and honey sandwiches.
I have a question about your peanut butter. Do you remove the skins off the peanut before you put in food processor? Thanks for the info regarding cover cropping. Learned alot.
I didn't remove the skins on the first batch, but did on the second batch. I couldn't tell much difference, but my wife said she could.
Hi Travis
Great explanation, may I ask what cost the cover crop the one bed, I gathering other’s may be wondering as well?
Great you made your own Peanut Butter, and it tasted so nice....😊
I think that cover crop mix was around $10-$15 plus shipping.
@@LazyDogFarm that’s affordable...😀🇦🇺
That peanut butter looked mighty good!! It is one of my favorite things to eat. Will definitely have to try and make some myself.
How long after incorporating mustard should I wait until I plant Green Cover's overwintering cover crop. I live in Northwest Florida, my first frost date is November 15.
I'd wait a couple weeks.
greetings from Pa. I watched a different vid. I think it was on black berries. You mentioned one can cover crop even in raised beds. Ive grown winter rye in the past but tht was in earth. what cover crop would you recommend for raised beds? Im in the north by the way if that matters
Clover would be a good one for raised beds if you're wanting a cool season cover crop. You could do winter peas as well.
I noticed you don't have any edging of your garden beds. How do you keep the grass out?
We use a stirrup hoe and wheel hoe around the edges every couple weeks.
Hey Travis you always mention using Nature Safe 855, where do you buy this?
Karen, I only know of two online vendors, Seven Springs Supply and New Country Organics, both based in VA. Depending on where you live in the country, you'll find the freight charges pricey. New Country has an outlet center in Lubbock, TX so that's who I use for heavy products like 8-5-5-and others. Seven Springs carries a wider product line in amendments and pest management, so I shop both fine companies.
What Mark said. I'm fortunate to have a few big fertilizer distributors within driving distance, so I can sometimes go grab a few bags. One of the benefits of living in big farming country.
Did you get the freezing temps this week like we did in Athens area
We didn't get below 36, but we did have frost on the ground Thursday morning.
When you are done with the cover crop, do you simply mow it down and put a tarp on it? Or do you mow it down and till it in?
Lately I've been letting the chickens take care of it and I'll mow it as well to help them.
I used the same winter mix but I added some ryegrass seed. Everything is starting to sprout.
Congratulations on the homemade peanut butter! That is quite an accomplishment Keep on gardenin'
Thanks!
Hey Travis as always enjoy your videos! You mentioned the projected frost/freezing temperatures. We just had a freeze(29-30) for 2 days and heavy frost. lost my peppers, tomatoes, butter beans, zucchini, squash! may loose more. Projected frost dates is often confuses gardeners. I’d like to know if you had this type weather! I live in oakdale, La. Happy fall gardening!
Yes we had a freeze earlier this week. Was able to protect most things, but definitely odd to have our first frost a month earlier than normal.
Did the kids go crazy with the homemade peanutbutter? 😀 To grow peanuts here, I would probably need to start them indoors in order to have enough time for them to reach maturity. The wood compost looked really good when you showed it in the previous video. I can totally see that being a good holder of moisture.
I just bought the other mix u was tlkin about the soil builder mix. Now u can laugh but I guarden at my apartment complex where a tree feel and when the tree ppl came and picked it up they had to clear out some other bushes and stuff so my land lord lets me guarden back there but I'm limited obviously. No drip no sprinkler and no mower. I do have a wheel hoe though and a sling blade. So when it comes time to cut my cover crops will a sling blade be good enough? Or maybe a weed eater?
Sling blade or weed eater would work.
No negatives in cover cropping! You're about to talk me into trying to grow some peanuts next summer! Nobody much grows them around here. I like a new challenge!
I wouldn't say it's the most time-efficient thing to do, but it's fun to try at least once to prove to yourself that you can do it.
@@LazyDogFarm If I ever let "time efficient" define my gardening, I'm done! :)
Would it be to late for me to cover crop here in 7B NC?
It might be. But if you get a week or two of warmer than normal temps, I'd say go for it. If you can get them up and growing, they should be fine.
I received my mustard nemagon seeds. You recommended me to use them to get rid of wireworms and apparently nematodes also.
Do I just scatter the seeds on the grow bag? Also are the greens edible? I've never done this before so I'm very uneducated as to how this works. Thanks in advance for your advice.
I went back and watched an older videos of yours that answered my question. Thanks for your help
That peanut butter looks delicious. 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Where do you buy your cover crop seed?
Green Cover Seed online
You've talked about other legumes that fix nitrogen, but have you ever planted an entire plot of peanuts for that purpose?
I have not. But that's not a bad idea.
Would it be ok to use black plastic to kill my cover crop
I did that last year on a couple of my raised beds that I had planted winter rye in the previous fall. I should have weed wacked the cover crop very early spring, then cover with tarp to break down the rye greens. It took a couple months with the tarp for it to break down, so allow enough time. Don't let them go to seed, cut them down before that.
I planted dikon radish and crimson clover in a plot that has no grass or weeds because the chickens were on it for awhile. The dirt was like concrete and dry as a 🦴. It's all up after I sprayed it with the water hose every day for a week.
Did you make any pecans this year?
We've had a few pecans falling, but not a bunch yet.
Have you thought about sending that sawdust compost or the "gin trash" compost to be tested? It would be interesting to see how "beneficial" it actually is. Maybe see if they can test for mycorrhizae fingi. No doubt it has lots of Nitrates, but it would be nice to know just how good it is...
I've seen the tests on the gin trash, but need to test the composted wood chips.
That tumeric looks pretty good...don't let the frost get it! That cover crop mixture looks pretty good though I hesitate on the vetch, it's so viney, hopefully it don't snuff out the other things, time will tell. I like roasted peanuts...I absolutely love boiled peanuts...all my kids are grown and gone...I can't stand peanut butter BLARRRRGH :) knock yourself out lol. I feed it to my dogs as a treat lol :) anyway gg :)
I noticed that turmeric looking mighty fine myself.
I currently garden in grow bags and reuse the bags and soil each year. I usually have to heavily amend the soil. Would planting cover crop in the bags be beneficial? If so, can you recommend a good crop to plant in 10g bags?
of course it would help. You need to grow something small. Buckwheat comes to mind. You will likely still have to amend your soil though there just isn't that much soil in 10 gallons and it can become drastically low in nutrients.
Rosalie, I garden extensively in 7 gal. nursery pots (80) and, like you, obliged to heavily amend every grow season. I find that alfalfa pellets function much like a cover crop in that application in supplying nutrients and growth hormones. I'd probably use 4 C per 10 gal. bag. Consider also Azomite and Andersons DG humic product in your mix. Containers are just the opposite of no-till practice in that soil nutrients are available wall-to-wall, floor to ceiling within the root zone. Good luck.
@@markware4933 you could also add a couple of cups of hardwood grilling pellets. But not too much they will tie up nitrogen. The plus side is the amount of minerals your putting into the soil.
Those composted wood chips will do nothing but good in adding moisture holding capacity while adding humus for the soil biology. The chips are likely to tie up some of your plant's nitrogen for their own breakdown, but you're well set to deal with that. Sure wish I had a mess of peanuts to process.
Be aware that those wood-chips will promote mushrooms which can weekly-bloom & make the soil hydrophobic. You use drip so maybe you won't notice the hydrophobic conditions. In my tall raised bed they'll create large balls of completely dry-hydrophobic soil.
Don’t worry about any of that going to seed…it’s all very easy to control especially when the chickens will eat any seeds they find
Appreciate this - zone 7A and originally from the Upstate of SC. It is different in the South. I was wondering about all the straw mulch I see in some of the other gardeners - especially those in California. The straw gives me the heebie jeebies when I think about what I could afford and the potential weed seeds. Appreciate any info. Thanks!
Good straw mulch (from grains) shouldn't have seeds since the grain heads are removed. Hay can have lots of seeds. Yikes.
If you want to improve your soil above & below going, consider growing Sorghum sudangrass Lots of biomass above & below ground. You can cut it at least once to harvest above ground mass for mulch & roots will grow deeper. Consult the SARE on-line covercrop guide.