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.

Absolutely gorgeous 🥬 😋 The way you explain just priceless 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

👌👌👌 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?

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.

Beautiful cabbages!!!! They look so healthy and lush! Enjoy that soup - share the recipe? Another very informative video - thank you!

Great info, thank you for sharing.

Thank you!

I just bought some broadleaf mustards to do just this very thing

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.

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.

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...

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! 👍

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!

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?

Great video. I'd like to get a copy of the mycorrhizal plant chart for our community garden. Any ideas? Also, recipe please.

Recommendations for cover crop in Colorado? We still have clay after 2 years gardening

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?

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.

where can we purchase winter rye seed?

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?

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