Not a fan boy but AGREED ! I trust Jesse, As far as I can trust someone I've never met. But if I hear him reading the book, I would believe it more.😊

110%. Please do this Jesse. I would even pre-buy it.

Yes please!!

do it!!!

Yes please. Add me to the list

This is a good idea! I should try this.

I also live in a very similar climate like this. Do you remove the pea mulch at some point or does the garlic grow up right through it fine?

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@@adamthomas9004 I never remove it. And by the time I harvest in July it’s hardly even recognizable. I think letting it break down in and on the soil gives the garlic a good nitrogen boost in the spring while it is putting out its new green growth before it bulbs.

Clover is a good weed crop though

Do you have an examples of perennial cover crops? I think I need to do that with my yard

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First time I've heard about snails as a part of this process. Maybe I should let them be!

@@hyacinthABC We don't do a lot of free range snails in the USa. There's only like 1 or 2 snail people. But weirdly, snails are eaten here in the USA if you are near a larger city. The problem is heliciculture licing and everything else just a mess for the USA. I've wanted do to it for 8 years since I learn how. Just completely not worth the side quest for me. Mostly due to the way the USA subsidies system are very cattle focus. In the USA snails just aren't really vaible, Cuy (some what) and Rabbits are. But that would basically be like grazing it out. Small mini cattle mini sheep on larger scale 2 or 3 acre market gardens can be really huge. Grazing the cover crop and frankly more effective. but if I was in the EU I'd definality do a cover crop rotation on snails if I was a market gardener and just follow it up by some good cleaner ducks. The reason why snails on a cover crop (you sitll must feed them corn though) would be pretty huge is becaus snailsdo pay well. It has a lot of backing. And they don't eat the cover crop to bare nubs. Id even do a cover crop over a thick mulch of woodchips. So like cover crop then once it came up enough spread woodchips then Add snails. to grow them out. It lets you rock down the woodchips get the cover crop. But I'd have to test it out myself. I don't eat snails though LOL then again selling snail goo has become very big lately. For beauty products. But as it would be (outdoor) it's only good for food production. Again, the snail thing is just on my list of projects for the farm. The selling Kimchi and Kimchi kits absolutely do because I live in a large korea population and bulk sales of kimchi stuff at certain times of years are kind of my backbone for cover crop being profitble. It's not huge money but it's still a payout as I rebuild soil.

@@MistressOP I see - we're not talking about the same type of snails at all! Very interesting ideas and I wish you good fortune in your enterprises.

@@hyacinthABC what type of snails are you talkng about? there's only 1 legalized for us but it's from EU and you can't cultivate it outside of control conditions. Ya no the day for snails was a lot younger. Maybe if I hire another person because I try to employee people and give them full time work and not seasonal work. I might use that as an enterprise so I can employee them elsewhere and do that for the filler. But I highly doubt that a naitve snail speices will be picked to cultuviate so I could actually do it outdoor on rented properties.

@@MistressOP The only snails I have are garden variety - some almost micro sized - and I have been stepping on them or drowning them in beer traps. Lately I've been wondering if I should let some of them work on decomposing mulch as long as they're not munching on plants. I have no interest in raising any for consumption, even if it becomes legal.

Iya. Petani ini teratur dan pandai menyusun waktu waktu menanam semua macam makanan

That's our cheap diverse mix! I'll add some clover, daikon, lentils as well. By combining some different types of blends, we have at least 15 different varieties growing.

Thank YOU!

Jess did a vid on planting into Dutch White perennial clover. Bad results. Annual veg can't compete with growing in a bed of perennial clover of that kind.

@@flatsville9343 i will have to check that out. I was looking at landino clover

I left everything in place last year rather than cleaning up my garden in the fall like I typically do, with the goal of allowing more beneficial insects to survive. I didn't think about the fact that it would allow a lot of non-beneficial insects to survive as well. I, too, am dealing with more pest pressure than I'm used to and losing a lot of seedlings that is not typical for me. It is demoralizing but I, too, just keep planting and hope for the best. Luckily I had put up wren houses around the garden for help with insects, though not all of them got populated. I think it's also helped somewhat that I put phacelia and daikon radish seed out in February, so those were up and flowering and drawing beneficials pretty early, along with last year's parsley and cilantro. Though I haven't seen slugs, some of what I'm seeing looks like slug damage, so I think I'm going to put out some beer traps just in case. Gardening can bring so much frustration and joy at the same time. Keep on keepin' on!

@@WesternMONo-TillGardening Thanks for the moral support! I just have to trust that things will eventually balance out in a few seasons and try to limit urge to napalm the garden which would just end up starving the beneficials 🙄 I planted phacelia this spring and a few have survived. If I can just get some of each variety to go to seed that I can broadcast a bazillion seed this fall I may have a chance. I don't care to reflect how much $ I've lost buying various flower seed in the smaller amounts practical for small suburban garden. Even my marigolds have been eaten down to single stem and lone flower

@@leahtruckenbrod1279 Wow, even your marigolds! That is unusual. I used to use neem to help with bugs but don't let myself do it anymore. I'm trying very hard to just let birds and good bugs take care of the bad bugs. It is all about balance, and we'll get there! Whenever I'm frustrated with pests and need inspiration, I rewatch The Biggest Little Farm. 😊

I'm a married but single farmer, if you get my drift. If you can find a few others in your area that are in the same level of growing as you are, you can text and send pictures of what you are trying to or accomplished each day. It is a nice way to motivate and/or share frustrations from day to day. For instance, one of my friends who has suffered from deer and rabbit issues this year, yesterday found a baby deer "nesting," she said in her compost pile. I share my bluebird successes and many other updates that have led to them getting bluebird boxes going and things they do help me also. Last year, I had a hail storm on 30 June that completely destroyed my garden, and my friends were VERY supportive, and that was really needed at that time.

Same problem here in 9a, cutworms were having a field day. Tried coffee grounds and DE, along with some nighttime bug patrols. Also sprayed with spinosad couple of times. Next planted some rows with solo cup transplants, not sure how to get the cups out of the ground with disturbing the bed. Maybe next time I’ll just transplant and cut a ring out of the Solo, if going that route.

Hancock Seeds is great!

Grocery store....blackeye peas, red beans, pintos. Coriander, dill seed in spice aisle. Watermelon and cantaloupe from store bought melons . They'll grow (& die) in their own time. Use a 5lb bag of "mixed" bird seed from the pet food aisle. It has Milo, millet, sunflower, etc. it's cheap. You don't need fancy schmancy seed catalogue stuff for cover seed

It makes it funnier than shit. So yes…lol