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I like that porous cover on the leaves. I find the leaves don't blow around that much if you don't, but might as well. I usually do my mulching on wet days so the mulch is heavy and so that I'm putting a holding blanket over all that fresh soil moisture. A thick mulch layer can block rain very effectively and then evaporate out before getting the ground. Nice to have snow sit on there for a winter because it will definitely soak through into the mulch and soil.

I've used mulch for years to good effect. But we did some cover crop mix on a bad patch of hardpack soil that was under some horrible buried landscape fabric at a client's garden. No idea why that is ever done, it prevents soil development completely and doesn't stop weeds at all. The clover ended up winning over a couple years and the soil was absolutely amazing. We just forked it up where we planted and cut the rest short. No need to kill a low clover, just gotta control for light. I don't go for ultra-tidy uniform surface, nature doesn't try to do that. I like a wild order, natural chaos. Like canadian permaculture channel says, soil building is primarily about maximizing photosynthesis and never allowing bare soil. You're doing that, so this is tidy but still fine, just not my thing.

Thank you for this video, very helpful. What is the white cover you’re using to cover the bed?

Very beautiful natural process. Maybe you could try a garden without the unnatural covers. My experience is that they are not necessary. And a planet with less unnatural things on it is a better planet. Don't you think? Anyway: be good, bye 👋

Soooo much work but wow is that going to be gorgeous soil. 👍🏻

Hi, do the types of leaves matter? I have a tonne of oak leaves only. I hear that they are too acidic, (except for blueberries). Do you know anything about this? Yours look like maple leaves which are fine.

Great video! What a great workout no gym membership needed. I never understand people who hired out their yard work so they could go workout at a gym? I know you can’t get all the range of exercises that you can get at a gym but you can get a lot and develop some stamina. Plus you get fresh air not recirculated air conditioned air!

new subscriber here, great video, thanks

I have a suggestion to make your videos more accessible. Don't add the background music when you're talking. For many people, it's a distraction that takes their attention away from what's being said (aka, makes it a lot harder to focus on what you're saying). For me this is the case and I've gotten to the point that I won't watch the videos when the music is vying for my attention. So unfortunately, I won't watch your video, even though I'm very interested in what you have to say. (For me, it's my learning style that's been accentuated by too many knocks to the noggin'). If you remove the music, or don't add it in the first place, that makes the production of your videos shorter. I haven't tried to post a video yet on my channel, but I'm guessing that the more you add to the video, the more time it takes. All the best with your channel.

Will all of this eventually break down into soil, in time to plant spring crops, or do you have to remove the leaves etc?

Thank you! I'm brand new to gardening in the ground (lived in Florida where everything in my area had to be raised beds). I've relocated to NE Texas and since it's October, I am looking at prepping a (currently non-existent) garden for next spring. This is so interesting! I wish I'd gotten a bit of cover down already, but still getting my location situated!

How did the beds with the daikon radishes turn out this year?

Please be careful with leaves. A lot of critters and insects take refuge and overwinter in leaves. If you're not aware of it, look up the 'insect apocalypse'.

Sea weed is also a great green layer to put on your beds

Great info, thanks for sharing your knowledge and techniques. How does your soil test out in the Spring and what plants seem to do best from your ammendments? Leafy greens, roots, or squashes?

When do you sow the cover crops?

You can treat your soil with Bio Fungicides and Bio insecticides. Beneficial fungi and bacteria will kill overwintering pathogenic fungi, bacteria and insects. I am going to water my raised beds generously with Trichoderma Viride, Trichoderma Harzianum, Bacillus Supp, Beauveria Bassiana, Metarhizium Anisopliae, Verticillium Lecanii. ➡ Trichoderma viride is a fungus that kills plant pathogens and suppresses their growth. It's a biological control agent that can be used to protect plants from many diseases, including: Root, collar, and stem rot, Damping off, Wilt, Blight, Rhizoctonia, Pythium, and Armillaria. ➡ Trichoderma harzianum, also known as T-22, is a beneficial fungus that can kill a range of plant pathogens, including fungi, bacteria, and nematodes: Root rot fungi, Phytophthora blight, Gray mold, Tobacco root rot. ➡ Bacillus subtilis is a bacterium that plays a role as a biofungicide by competing with disease-causing organisms in a plant's root system: Colonizes the root system, Inhibits spore germination, Disrupts germ tube growth, Produces antibiotics, Induces systemic acquired resistance against bacterial pathogen, Promotes plant growth, Enhances stress tolerance. ➡ Beauveria bassiana is a fungus that kills many types of insects, including: Aphids, Whiteflies, Thrips, White grubs, Mealybugs, Psyllids, Chinch bugs, Lygus bugs, Grasshoppers, Stink bugs, Termites, Fire ants, Flies, Stem borers, Fungal gnats, Shoreflies, Beetles. ➡ Metarhizium anisopliae is a fungus that kills a variety of insects and other arthropods, including: Mosquito larvae, Beetle larvae, Plutella xylostella ( kills 93% of larvae of this destructive cruciferous crop pest), Other insects (can infect over 200 species of insects, including thrips, ticks, root weevils, aphids, and whiteflies). ➡ Verticillium lecanii is a fungus that kills a variety of insect pests, including: Aphids, Scale insects, Thrips, Mites, Mealybugs, Leaf hoppers, Red spider mites, Lepidopterous pests like spodoptera and helicoverpa.

A lot of work for being lazy

U should wear protect glass when u do weed job.

2025 human still try figuring out how to build civilisation able to last more than few century without wiping the whole biosphere. Best of luck to you, this effort is a blessing. May be difficult and instructive but doing with is always better than doing without. Human have so much to learn or unlearn.

Upon being away from my newly germinated seedlings over the last couple springs for a week, I had no choice but to devise a method to keep them from drying out. I purchased wicking material from a garden supply store as well as some sheets of cat scat. I cut both to fit into my grow trays with the wicking material a few inches longer. The idea is to place the cat scat on the bottom of the tray, the wicking material over it with those extra long ends folded over and reaching to the bottom of the tray. I then set my cell containers on top of the wicking material. Once everything is in place, I fill the tray (without holes,) with water until the wicking fabric is well wetted, but water is not over the fabric. The longer ends dip into the water and constantly wick up moisture to keep the plants from drying out. It’s not a new concept. They make trays but they’re $30.00 for only 24 plants. I was able to keep my 16 trays of seedlings adequately watered for one week at least…sometimes longer depending on plat type. I have domes, but I’m not a fan of them as I tend to get a lot of algae. I now use this method every year when I start my seedlings…it waters them from below and doesn’t attract fungus gnats. Honestly, I wish I’d thought of it sooner!!!

What did you do with the garden roots, stems, and plants before planting the cover crop? Most gardens have thick roots and stems from broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes, etc. Did you plow these into the soil or take them out and compost them?

You mention using "grass clippings" as mulch .... my "lawn" is mostly creeping clover, dandylions, yarrow, creeping charlie, and some grass too! Is it ok to you these clippings as mulch? Wont they start more clover, etc growing in my beds? Thank you

I cut down many annuals & perennials this time of the year. Is it ok to use the various chopped-up plants as a mulch on my veggie beds? Thank you for your very informative video.

Rachel, as I do my very first garden bed, I notice some sort of edging around the entire area. Husband wants to know what to do to keep wood chips from getting tossed out into yard as we mow. Suggestions?

Absolutely love it! Can you show what it looked like in spring?

How long before this was your cover crop planted?

Does having those type blocks surrounding your garden, poison the soil? Are chemicals able to leach out of that cement?

Very informative video. Your presentation style is excellent and easy to pay attention to!

Interesting re cover crops, leaves. Cinder blocks/concrete blocks leach chemicals into the soil and are not recommended for use in gardening per many reputable sources. It's all online.

Would a couple fence posts weaved in the cow panel ankor it?

Groundhogs wiped out two plantings of 50 squash plants this year. Looks like I am fencing for next year.

Have you considered the chop and drop muching method?

I made the mistake and grew many varieties of plants in one large tray. They all grew at different rates so lost many to them becoming spindly from lack of light. I cut the large pack into 6 packs and planted one variety in each pack. This gave me contol of the lighting. Like the small block for tomatoes. Thanks.

I started my sweet potatoes in potting soil. Soaked the potato in rain water for a day our two first. The roots grow right from the slip that way. Resoak in rain water to remove soil from roots and twist off slip with roots attached.

This is the worst year of gnats. We have mother viniger trays everywhere.

Please remind viewers to like and share. Your information and presentation are good so you deserve more likes than I see posted. I really think people forget to do it.

Could try putting seed with a cup dry dirtt or sand, then sprinkle that into the row.

You are so thorough. Yes, I use concrete block though I hve fewer beds. I likke the modular nature of the. I have 3. Foot walkways for my cart to pull threw. 4x12 foot beds wiwith flowers and solar light arranged in the block holes. I can always add more block layers to elevate the beds if needed. This is my second year of crops and enjoying gardening in retirement. Planning to add a new bed each year for a few more. I have all sandy soil so the beds are hurdaculturol? Wood buried 3 foot deep. Anyway it seems to help beecause plants grow well with weekly soak hose irrigation. I use 8 foot metal fence postes with nylon netting for trellis. With po!y rope strung across top of posts and ankered at post base to tie netting or tomato string trellis to. I like your idea for poly pipe screen shading. Have some trouble keeping the squash on netting though Might try using string And clips support like for tomatoes to be more effective. Love your videos...give me things to think about becase you are so thorough in your planning. Thanks!

I plant mixes salad greens as my winter cover crop. In March and April I can take 50+ lbs of greens to my food bank. I’m still building soil and feeding my microbes. Leaves are good, green plants are better. Raised beds, low tunnels.

I have never done a cover crop I am in zone 6A. We have a few raised beds and another area of the garden that's been inundated with Bermuda grass Trying to learn how to do the proper cover crop thing. I know you don't have a problem with Bermuda grass in Michigan! Do you think it would be wise at this point (Oct 3rd) to just to cover the Bermuda with a black tarp so it would die quickly? Then plant a cover crop?

What store can i get them?

I'm really interested in using the daikon method but have read that they can be really smelly as they decompose and I don't want to make enemies with my neighbors. Did you have any experience with a bad smell from them?

We put down leaves over our raised beds for the winter also (I'm in Vermont). To keep the leaves in place, we lay down snow fencing. It lets the rain and snow through and is cheaper than anything else and readily available. In the spring, it can be rolled up and stored away for next fall to be used again.

I don't have any leaves can I buy them?

Sorry for your terrifically annoying loop of ANNOYING REPETITIVE ‘Musak’. No sound is necessary, but if you like something Natural (not electronic), soft, not repeating.

Very timely as I'm about to put a couple of vegetable beds to snooze for the winter.

Love the "starting from scratch" playlist. Up to this point, I have been growing in containers, but I would like to build my very first bed. Your playlist talks about starting in spring, but I know starting now is a good idea to prep for spring planting. Is there a video or info you already have on starting from scratch in fall? It is Oct. 1, and I would just like to get the initial set up done and creating a fertile spring bed. I also want to say I LOVED your telling your younger self how to start slow and small and allow your skills to level up. That is what I want to do.

I love your sharing the lessons you learned and what NOT to do. Just really appreciate you!

When do you start the cover crop?