HOW TO WIN THE WEED BATTLE IN YOUR GARDEN!
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- We're making the ULTIMATE COVER CROP COCKTAIL to feed our soils and reduce weeds. Join us to see which 6 cover crops we'll be using to make this ultimate cocktail.
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In my 50 years of gardening after graduating from Ag school I have never seen anything that can beat frequent, shallow cultivation. My personal weapon of choice is a homemade wire weeder. When I had better coordination I used razor sharp Japanese style tools. Enjoying the zen of weeding and that satisfying slicing sound is as addictive as bubble wrap when you get it right. The best time to kill a weed is while there in the filament stage before you even see them. If you develop good gardening habits and do this frequently, you can progress with your weeding amazingly fast and your garden is always presentation ready.
Thanks for all the information on cold cover crops. Travis Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your crew as well!
I planted the Lacy P for cover crop in July, its' been frosted several times and it still looks great out in my garden! Thankyou Travis!
Great to hear!
Got a good plot with y'all's dikons radishes. Excellent germination!
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Your concept to weed control is most interesting. I will subscribe so to learn more. Thankyou
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My swiss chard is growing well first time growing it. yall at hoss tools have a Great Thanksgiving.
Great to hear. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!
That sounds like one powerful combination of cover crops. Curious to see just what kind of growth you get on it and how it works out. If that works out as well as you think it does, I am going to put that down for a mix for next fall up north here. That radish if one that I am looking to put in early next spring to really open up the clay soil and scavenge nutrients from down deep for next summer's garden.
Great plan!
Man there's some good looking cover crops . Green manure .
Those tub trugs are great!!
For sure!
If you don't own a decent tiller, what are good cool season cover crops I can just mow, drop and tarp?
Winter peas, forage collards, forage cabbage, clover -- those should all work fine by just mowing and tarping. The only ones that really need tilling would be winter rye, radish and mustard.
That should be a fine plot there! You do, indeed, plant them thick! Man, I like the looks of that Dura Rake! I can't seem to tear mine up so I can justify buying one of those! :) The newer ones look like they have changed a bit.
So the design I use is actually the design we're about to carry. We carried a different design for the last couple years, but are now going to this one that you've seen in my cover crop videos for a while now.
I have all 9 of my production plots cover in Hoss Cover Crops. I was planting tillage radishes with the seeder at first, but I have begun broadcasting. 8 of 9 field blocks have tillage radish, and some have a mixture of something else. 1 field block has only Austrian Winter Peas. I am expanding to 4 more field block, and I have 2 of these in Crimson Clover and Berseem clover. In my other 2 field blocks, which are outside the fence and have no water or fertilization and are to feed the wildlife(so they stay out of the main Garden), I have tillage radishes and Marvel chick pea. The other has white and crimsom clover, austrian peas, forage collards, and tillage radishes. I plant sunflowers in this over the summer and sell at the farmers market. I will use chickens to terminate the cool season cover crop over the sunflower plot, then move them over the expansion plots with crimson/white clover. Will start my last 2 plots with millet, and let that grow over the summer. Chickens will terminate these in September. I love all of the products I get from Hoss Tools!!!!
Thanks Mark! Glad to hear your new market gardens are going well!
Travis, really love the cover crop info.
When you say Winter Rye are you growing cereal rye (the grain crop) or winter rye grass?
The grain. Not like the stuff people plant in their yards or on golf courses.
Can these cover crops be done in taller raised beds?
If you were using these as a cover crop in a no-till or semi no-till setting, you wouldn’t till these in, if I understand correctly. So, would you mow or cut everything off at the soil surface, then cover it over with a black tarp for 2-3 weeks before preparing your soil for planting?
Yes, they can be grown in a raised bed. And if you were not going to incorporate them into the soil, you would need to tarp them.
Do you ever use annual rye grass? Or just cereal rye? I have read annual rye grass is very good because of it's deep root system.
Just cereal rye.
I like your idea of planting a cocktail for your cover crop , however for us with smaller gardens that would be very expensive. If we need 4 or 5 pounds of seeds for our cover crop (for example: crimson clover is 12.99 Ib or 24.99 for 5Ib, hairy vetch is 12.99 Ib , or 24.99 for 5Ib) we would do better buying only one variety moneywise. if I got a pound of each variety it would be 26.00 for 2 pounds, instead I could get 5Ib of one kind cheaper. I promise I am not complaining, I love you guys for what you do for us as gardeners! My question is, could you offer a cocktail blend already packaged, say in 5 lb bags, making the product a bit cheaper for small home gardeners that want to do a cocktail cover crop? Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
When we have our new seed room built in the next month or two, we hope to be able to offer pre-mixed cocktails for the smaller-scale. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@gardeningwithhoss Congrats on future new seed building .May God keep Blessing you and your family and business! Merry Christmas !!
Is it necessary to use inoculants on the legumes? Any legumes? I always try to use some for peas, beans and would want to for cover crop legumes also if I decide to use them down the road. Yes, updates on the cover crops for sure. I've cover cropped my sweet corn ground with very heavy winter wheat mostly but also one block is daikon and seven top with a light dose of winter wheat.
We don't use inoculants, but it certainly doesn't hurt anything to use them.
Does this work with Bermuda grass? We had problems with that this year.
Yes! We have plenty of bermudgrass.
Is there a cover crop that can be mowed over instead of tilled in?
If you're just going to mow it, you'll likely have to tarp afterwards to kill it. That is unless you live somewhere where it gets cold enough to "winter kill" it.
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@@gardeningwithhoss thanks
Can some of this be harvested for consumption as well?
The daikon radishes can be harvested. Not sure you would want to eat any of the other stuff.
How do I get Bermuda grass out of my garden ? Please help.I’ve tried years and stiff have it.
Till and tarp. Till the area, put a tarp on it for 4-5 weeks. Pull back the tarp, till again, put back the tarp and repeat with tilling every 2-3 weeks. After doing this process 3-4 times, you'll get rid of those Bermuda rhizomes and have a nice, weed-free plot.
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@@gardeningwithhoss I can't wait to plant my seeds from Hoss
So if I use cover crop in my raised bed, then till them in, how soon before I can plant food again?
Usually only takes a couple weeks for the breakdown in the soil to occur. Warmer temperatures will speed up the process.
Identify your weeds. Use them for medicine, food or animal feed.
Or reduce their presence in our weed seed bank so they don't compete with our vegetable crops. I'd much rather eat collards than purslane or pigweed.
Not interested is winter.
Is it though?
Sometimes i put you on 2x speed so you sound like a chipmunk
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