IT'S TOO HOT TO GARDEN! -- WHAT WILL WE DO?!
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- August is the month we we take a break for the most part. But we won't leave our soils bare! Join us to see how we'll manage our garden plots until it's time to grow vegetables again.
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Thanks Travis, This has been a huge help. Been reading that you "should" plant 3 or more of a cover crop (legume, grass & broadleaf) All I have is a 400 sq ft garden and a weed wacker, and am unsure how to cover crop with the tools that I have.(mainly terminate with just a weed wacker) I am in the same zone 8b.
Cutting with a weedeater works just fine. We cut most of ours with a walk-behind, non self-propelled push mower.
Hey, looking forward to Lacy P. Some say a cooler weather crop???
It can withstand pretty cold temps as well.
Hey Hoss - curious to know why yall pulled all your tomato plants already instead of leaving them until frost? Better use of the garden area during the slow production from the heat of the summer I assume? We're in North Texas and production slows way down in July/August but comes back in September a bit (albeit not like prime time in late spring/early summer though).
Our tomatoes never make it past mid-July down here. They've been pulled for several weeks now and we already have a cover crop in that spot.
Do you plant food plots your cover crops are awesome for the deer
Many folks around here do, and we have as well from time to time.
9b Phoenix AZ Our temps have been HOT 105-115+. I have small amount of in ground bed and several 4x8 raised beds. Is cover cropping a wise when you balance out benefits and water costs? will they even grow enough to be useful?? we have another 6-8 weeks before it will start becoming more veggie plant friendly and i can put starts out without frying.
Depends on the specific needs of your garden. It really helps us because we have high disease and weed pressure. The cover cropping helps break those cycles, so definitely worth it for us.
Good ideas.....please tell me how to grow big onions and store them......
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Can you show mowing the cover crop in a video?
Sure we will. We have several videos we did last year showing different techniques for terminating a cover crop.
Same for garden . Do i pull it all up? Or till under. Newat all this
Any cucurbits (squash, cucumbers, pumpkins, melons) and any nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers), we pull and remove from the garden because those plants can harbor insect eggs and fungal spores. Most everything else can be mowed or tilled into the soil.
How did you chop up your sweet corn plants?
Lawn mower
It`s to hot to garden Hook to the camper and head down to Indian pass . Its scallop season
Not a bad idea at all!
I have the sorghum Sudan grass. planted Looks good . how did the temperss sweet corn do, hope it was tasty.
It was very tasty!
@@gardeningwithhoss my honey select is almost ready to pick. if I can keep raccoons out of it. its been a job doing that.
What do you think about cover cropping with turnips?
Not a bad idea at all!
Do you harvest any of the cover crops? peas, buckwheat? or just turn it over?
We just turn them into the soil to add organic matter.
How Did the "Temptress" Sweet Corn Turn Out? I Must Have Missed It.
Really good. Nice, big ears and sweet.
Do you pull sumfowers up or till under.
Mow them and then till.
My garden plot is new and desperately needs organic materials an nitrogen. Should I start with compost or a cover crop/tarping? I'm in zone 8a.
cover crop and tarp now, compost before you plant
What was the results on the sunflower grow off I never seen a results video, I think Mrs Wanda got everyone on height but I haven’t seen the final results.
Our Garden Goodies video on Sunday showed our final results.
I'm sure there's enough water in that shirt your wearing! You looked soaked! Lol! On another note, I'm going to try the iron clad peas , seems easy enough. Thanks for sharing!
It's hot!
@@gardeningwithhoss oh I believe you! It's blistering hot here in Houston. But we'll pull through! 💪💪
I’ve always heard cover crops work better in diverse mixtures....will you do a test plot where you mix all your cover crop seeds together (literally all)
Not sure that would be the best idea. We like to combine them based on relative maturity dates. If we were to mix buckwheat with some of these others, we'd have to cut them way too soon because buckwheat matures so much faster than the others.
Hoss Tools I always forget how long your growing season is...here in New York you can put buckwheat in late August early September and the frost will normally kill it before it sets seed
How many acres do you guys have?
2 acres of land, but the garden plots total are about 1/4 acre.
How many acres do you have?
Our homestead is right at 2 acres. We have 10 garden plots which are approximately 1,000 sq. ft. each, so about 1/4 acre of total garden.
Isn't cover crop of sunflower a little pricey?
Compared to what? If you like growing sunflowers, grow them.
This is for the row by row show, but have you ever use chicken feathers to amend you soil?
Have not. Don't have a good source for lots of those.