I use hairy vetch to intercrop my “still growing” vegetables, even amongst my strawberries. As the vetch starts to shade the edible veg, I cut it down to an inch or two above soil which allows it grow up again, then do it all over again and again. Works well for me.
One of my favorite winter eats - - 1 head cabbage, 1 large onion & 1 stick of butter. Chop, cook down in my dutch oven, sprinkle some pepper. Simple and YUMMMM.... -KJ
That's not a cabbage...it's a bowling ball!!! So impressive Mark. Nice work and as usual great info that's much appreciated from a fellow Jersey gardener.
@@iamorganicgardening Great sounding "bowling"soup. One day I'll have to buy a "spare" cabbage from you and make soup. Haha...Keep the good videos coming cause we all learn so much from you Mark.
👌👌👌 Video. That tool used to cut to the root level was very good. Can you pls make a video of all the useful tools a home gardner can use along with where to buy?
Long time I was not seeing you YT videos. I like the idea of cover intercropping with cabbage. The cabbage is already well established. Second year I have a fall harvest, last year only 3 or 4 cabbages. This year I hope to have 10 or a bit more.
Nice harvest!!! Good luck with H.Ian... I'm in the process of putting all my beds to cover crops (including winter oats this time, for the straw). I'm sprinkling in and around the squashes, hoping to get it going in the couple of weeks before I harvest and clear everything. It gets complicated, sometimes, in a small plot! I'm getting started in a big way now, too, my Eco-Beds - the dense wildflower/predator-attractant/habitat design. I'll have to learn how to make decent videos, to document it...
You are on the right track. Looking forward to you videos. If you can just take video now of it on your cell phone and save it to your computer you can always upload it later. Just hold you cell sideways for a larger picture called landscape when filming and move slowly.
Excellent video Mark! When my tomatoes and peppers finally die off I plan on layering chop and drop (including yard waste) with wood chips to compost over winter in my raised bed. Should I add a top layer of soil and plant a cover crop? What would do well in zone 7b (mild winter/some snow?) Keep up the good work and much love from Chattanooga to you and family! 👍
Yes, you can. Two things that are helpful to do. Your chop and drop layer should not be tall or thicker that 2 inch's. And second the soil you ad should be at least 2 inch's thick. Enjoy. Thanks
Do you leave the roots from all crops in the soil? I've always pulled up my spent plants, tomatoes, peppers, etc. I guess I should be cutting the plants off at the soil and leaving the root system? Love your videos! So informative! Thank you!
I cannot grow Napa cabbages, too hard because we’ve lots of slugs this year. Think I am going to interplant my overwintering brassicas with winter rye. Thanks for the informative videos, as always.
Hi Mark thanks for the video! I'm planning on planting winter rye and red clover together. I'm concerned that the time to eliminate them at the mature stage won't coincide. How would you go about doing this? Also, how do you know when are winter rye and red clover are ready to cut down right before the mature seed stage?
You do not have wait until the mature seed stage to cut and cover crop down. What ever your cover crop is you should cut it down 30 days prior to plant seeds or transplants. The cover crop can be short and green still.
@@iamorganicgardening Okay thanks Mark! I'll keep that in mind. Also, do you happen to know if vermiculite bad for growing mycorrhizal fungi? I just put some in my raised bed
Thanks for all the soil and cover crop info. I've been growing hairy vetch in some of my beds for years but I noticed maybe 15 years ago that my pole lima beans produced huge leafy plants with no limas. I finally concluded that it must be the vetch adding too much nitrogen since that was the only new variable in my gardening techniques for the limas. So now I only plant vetch ( and I'm trying crimson clover this year also) in beds where I'll be growing nitrogen loving plants next year like brassicas. My other beds I just amend with compost and grass/leave mulch in the fall. Does this sound like a good plant and is there certain cover crops lower in nitrogen than others that may benefit my beds?
Pole Lima Beans are in the same nitrogen making family as hairy vetch, They are both legumes making there own nitrogen. You do not need the hairy vetch to be planted prior to the lima beans
I have a problem with cabbage, I don´t think they form heads. I watch them grow, and next thing I know, they bloom. I do feed them with nitrogen regularly. Any suggestions?
On used coffee grounds, can it be decaf or flavored also? Does it have to specifically be organic beans? I don’t know if any of that matters as long as it is used.
It is best to call up customer service from a seed company you buy from or going to buy from and ask them. You what to ask for a cover crop seed that keeps a living root in the ground over your winter. Also google what your USDA zone is ? All great info you should have to grow a great garden.
I use hairy vetch to intercrop my “still growing” vegetables, even amongst my strawberries. As the vetch starts to shade the edible veg, I cut it down to an inch or two above soil which allows it grow up again, then do it all over again and again. Works well for me.
PERFECT, what a great way to work with nature and grow soil. THANK YOU for sharing.
Absolutely gorgeous 🥬 😋
The way you explain just priceless 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you so much 😃
One of my favorite winter eats - -
1 head cabbage, 1 large onion & 1 stick of butter.
Chop, cook down in my dutch oven, sprinkle some pepper.
Simple and YUMMMM.... -KJ
Good stuff! Tonight's Meal. THANK YOU.
That's not a cabbage...it's a bowling ball!!! So impressive Mark. Nice work and as usual great info that's much appreciated from a fellow Jersey gardener.
THANK YOU. Why is there a Bowling Ball in my soup. LOL
@@iamorganicgardening Great sounding "bowling"soup. One day I'll have to buy a "spare" cabbage from you and make soup. Haha...Keep the good videos coming cause we all learn so much from you Mark.
👌👌👌 Video. That tool used to cut to the root level was very good. Can you pls make a video of all the useful tools a home gardner can use along with where to buy?
Beautiful cabbages!!!! They look so healthy and lush! Enjoy that soup - share the recipe? Another very informative video - thank you!
THANK YOU so very much.
Long time I was not seeing you YT videos. I like the idea of cover intercropping with cabbage. The cabbage is already well established. Second year I have a fall harvest, last year only 3 or 4 cabbages. This year I hope to have 10 or a bit more.
Hoping the bet for you also . THANKS
I just bought some broadleaf mustards to do just this very thing
Please check the list. Mustard does not help to grow Mycorrhizal fungi. Thanks
Great info, thank you for sharing.
My pleasure!
Nice harvest!!! Good luck with H.Ian... I'm in the process of putting all my beds to cover crops (including winter oats this time, for the straw). I'm sprinkling in and around the squashes, hoping to get it going in the couple of weeks before I harvest and clear everything. It gets complicated, sometimes, in a small plot!
I'm getting started in a big way now, too, my Eco-Beds - the dense wildflower/predator-attractant/habitat design. I'll have to learn how to make decent videos, to document it...
You are on the right track. Looking forward to you videos. If you can just take video now of it on your cell phone and save it to your computer you can always upload it later. Just hold you cell sideways for a larger picture called landscape when filming and move slowly.
@@iamorganicgardening Good idea! Well, I'll give it a go! It's the only way to improve...
Excellent video Mark! When my tomatoes and peppers finally die off I plan on layering chop and drop (including yard waste) with wood chips to compost over winter in my raised bed. Should I add a top layer of soil and plant a cover crop? What would do well in zone 7b (mild winter/some snow?)
Keep up the good work and much love from Chattanooga to you and family! 👍
Yes, you can. Two things that are helpful to do. Your chop and drop layer should not be tall or thicker that 2 inch's. And second the soil you ad should be at least 2 inch's thick. Enjoy. Thanks
Do you leave the roots from all crops in the soil? I've always pulled up my spent plants, tomatoes, peppers, etc. I guess I should be cutting the plants off at the soil and leaving the root system?
Love your videos! So informative! Thank you!
Yes I do! They will let air and water into the soil when they die off and to help grow other plants, its is natures way to keep the soil alive. Thanks
I cannot grow Napa cabbages, too hard because we’ve lots of slugs this year. Think I am going to interplant my overwintering brassicas with winter rye. Thanks for the informative videos, as always.
Just a little seed at first to give it a try. Thanks
Great video. I'd like to get a copy of the mycorrhizal plant chart for our community garden. Any ideas? Also, recipe please.
Here its is. www.rootnaturally.com/PlantListMycorrhizal.pdf .
@@iamorganicgardening Thank you.
Hi Mark thanks for the video! I'm planning on planting winter rye and red clover together.
I'm concerned that the time to eliminate them at the mature stage won't coincide. How would you go about doing this? Also, how do you know when are winter rye and red clover are ready to cut down right before the mature seed stage?
You do not have wait until the mature seed stage to cut and cover crop down. What ever your cover crop is you should cut it down 30 days prior to plant seeds or transplants. The cover crop can be short and green still.
@@iamorganicgardening Okay thanks Mark! I'll keep that in mind. Also, do you happen to know if vermiculite bad for growing mycorrhizal fungi? I just put some in my raised bed
Not a problem ...
@@iamorganicgardening Ok thanks for taking the time to help me out!
Thanks for all the soil and cover crop info. I've been growing hairy vetch in some of my beds for years but I noticed maybe 15 years ago that my pole lima beans produced huge leafy plants with no limas. I finally concluded that it must be the vetch adding too much nitrogen since that was the only new variable in my gardening techniques for the limas. So now I only plant vetch ( and I'm trying crimson clover this year also) in beds where I'll be growing nitrogen loving plants next year like brassicas. My other beds I just amend with compost and grass/leave mulch in the fall. Does this sound like a good plant and is there certain cover crops lower in nitrogen than others that may benefit my beds?
Pole Lima Beans are in the same nitrogen making family as hairy vetch, They are both legumes making there own nitrogen. You do not need the hairy vetch to be planted prior to the lima beans
I have a problem with cabbage, I don´t think they form heads. I watch them grow, and next thing I know, they bloom. I do feed them with nitrogen regularly. Any suggestions?
They are forming seeds because it is to warm for them ( it is called bolting ). they be planted very early spring or late fall.
@@iamorganicgardening thank you, it is what I do. Will keep trying, maybe simpler varieties.
11:00 mycorrhizal plant chart
Thanks for the time stamp
where can we purchase winter rye seed?
I get mine from Johnnyseeds.com
On used coffee grounds, can it be decaf or flavored also? Does it have to specifically be organic beans? I don’t know if any of that matters as long as it is used.
None of that matters. Just used coffee grounds. Thanks
Recommendations for cover crop in Colorado? We still have clay after 2 years gardening
It is best to call up customer service from a seed company you buy from or going to buy from and ask them. You what to ask for a cover crop seed that keeps a living root in the ground over your winter. Also google what your USDA zone is ? All great info you should have to grow a great garden.
Thank you!
Welcome!