I'm amazed tarping works for you for Bermuda grass. It's in my yard (and garden beds) and I've found that deep mulching with soil and cardboard makes it REALLY happy. I've had a little success with solarizing with black plastic for two years, but if any roots connect from the outside areas, it'll come back really fast. My best success is just consistent weeding as best I can, and after several years, it starts to get weaker, but never completely goes away. I've seen Bermuda grass roots three feet down in clay. I've seen it puncture the bottom of a plastic swimming pool, and travel for 6-8 feet under a concrete pad. It's a formidable adversary.

What is the difference between cover crops and living mulch?

May 12th! Long may that day live in infamy! I lost 40 year old citrus on that dark day. Recent snows were, by contrast, beneficient compared to the plain ol' dry northwesters of that day. Suck the life out of anything temperate!

Can the green leaves be eaten as well ?

Best tomatoes: Carbon, Black Crim, and Cherokee Purple.

Lasy year sowed barley and field peas in a bed that would be getting tomato and pepper transplants. All did really well and will repeat this year. Last frost is early May, barley/peas sown early March, covered by hoop supported poly for warmth and protection. Tomatoes transplanted third weekend in May, peas/barley chopped and dropped the day before transplanting, peppers transplanted a week later. Just playing/learning in a small urban garden, S. Ontario, Canada.

Muito bom!

I stake and tie my peppers. They fruit so heavily the branches break to easily while harvesting.

@ QUESTION,, When should I seed my crimson clover?

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

I am going to plants some seeds and go stand by my onion trays and watch them grow.

Hey Jesse, I love the idea of living pathways. I have ran across this park in Tulsa, OK that had a traffic friendly sedum that only gets 3 o 4 in tall. So this year I am starting oktober fest sedum that claims to be traffic friendly. Really hoping this works!

Best outro story to date! Gotta listen to the whole thing for it to click. But if I was a movie director, I would be taking that concept to Jurassic park and making bank!

Do you have official seller of your book on english in Europe? So we can skip inport fee 😁

Perfect couple. 😮

Jesse, you wrote an article about how evil Silage Tarps are in 2019 - and you were right. There is a third option - burn the fields. While you cannot do this every year, with cover cropping and burning you can greatly reduce the seed bank in your fields without the need of a silage tarp. Throw a thin layer of hay/leaves/twigs on your field, set it on fire, and let it burn to ash. Spread the ash evenly through the field and immediately plant a cover crop in that field. Repeat cover crops on that field for the entire season and then top off the beds with compost the next season and plant. This is the reason I could not farm anything less than a few acres at a time. I do not let my fields go fallow, but I sure as hell set them on fire every 2-3 years and cover crop them an entire season before planting. If you are planting vegetable crops in your fields every year, I do not care what kind of system you are using, you are going to exhaust the soil. This is just common sense. I call it modified slash and burn, and it works better than silage tarps. I think I've saved the world on much more plastic by not using silage tarps than I would by not using plastic seedling trays. My point is that Jesse is cutting plastic in the least impactful way that he could on his farm. I just don't see how laying down a gigantic sheet of plastic on a field for months at a time is consistent with no-till/regenerative farming principles - because it isn't. It just makes you all look like a bunch of hypocrites, to be honest. Tilling destroys land and the environment, but so does covering huge swathes of earth with plastics. Come on guys - do better.

Thanks!

AI is pollution until it gets trained. Once again we are guinea pigs.

I very much enjoyed your story in this episode. :D

On the subject of achieving a balance between good bugs vs bad bugs, I think I’m there. Maybe. In the past I would spray either Neem, Bt, or Spinosad, for infestations and preventative measures. Weekly routine. I stopped spraying altogether four years ago. The first year being spray free was pretty rough but it has gotten much better. I just don’t freak out anymore when I see a couple of leaves being chewed on.

Hey Jess What would be a vegan option to the fish hydrolysate please? Thanks And thanks so much for reminding me to be careful for what ccrops I plant now. Just got my seed for ccrops so was pretty excited...I'll tone down the excitement :) Have a great weekend!

Jesse! you had it Carlina... car-lena... hay funny thing about your story...my sister and I actually were the first ones to have found dinosaur bones, on a family trip was teenager on a ranch in Montana... they still have paleontologist digs there to this day how did you find out we planted them! shhhhhhhhh j/k they have found many more but in retrospect I should have planted something... oh the shoulda coulda and what woulda I planted..... please keep up the good work! your invaluable to the development of my new career, lifestyle and passion

I was looking for more of what to do to the land to start an organic no till farm, kinda like step 1,2,3, but your video gives valuable advice.

We plan use using cereal rye as a cover crop for our no-til pumpkins this spring for two reasons. It provides a mulch to keep pumpkins off of the ground and is a natural habit for wolf spiders which really like cucumber beetles. Thinking about using it between the rows of watermelons and cantaloupes grown on plastic.

Thanks!

How dare KZbin hide this from me for 14 whole minutes

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Peas are my favorite garden snack. I never get enough of them into the house to actually use in a meal. Lol

Jeez man, get to the topic! Whats the cover crop???

Sounds like you guys need a "poker night." I am a tabletop game nerd. Setting up a farmers' board game night would be great for you!!

Gophers. We have them all ( pocket gophers, prairie dogs, moles, voles,,) we are in NE wa state (think n. Idaho) we have a trap protocol where we always have traps set and out. The gophers will learn them and avoid them eventually though. We have cats who catch them. The only plants we have found to help deter them is comfrey. But you need a lot of it. The roots of comfrey will form a physical barrier underground that the gophers do not like to go through. So a hedge of comfrey will also be an underground hedge to keep them out. By the way, pocket gophers will eat garlic too. I know this from experience. Sigh. Good luck!

I often don't trellis my peppers, I don't like the extra hassle. A lot are lost to rot on the ground, especially when the weather gets really rainy. Would be nice to select varieties that are more upright and don't need trellising.

I dont trellis bell peppers. Plants remain upright np.

One year of tarp doesnt get rid of nut sedge. Those nuts last for years, just waiting for you to disturb soil, instant weeds!

I've lived and farmed organically on the first Hare Krishna farm in America for over 50 years. May I offer a simple analogy drawn from the oldest currently existing culture--Vedic culture-- on Earth. It goes like this: When you water the root of a tree, the whole tree is nourished, all the leaves, twigs buds, fruits etc. Likewise when the farming technology is aimed at pleasing the Good Lord (we refer to Krishna), mother nature reciprocates to feed Her children. Long story short, when the Farher is pleased, He can direct the Mother to dial up yields, productivity, nutrient density etc.

Lucky we are in India, growing carrot is not a problem here. Just throw the seeds you will have carrot.

Jesse, do you have a problem with the dutch white clover spreading into your beds? Thanks!

Thank you for the discussion on hydroponics. It gave my husband and I something to visit over coffee this morning and we both agree that flavor is lacking in most all the hydroponic food we've ever tasted. I feel that there is something to be said about the struggles a plant goes through that produces more flavor/sugars. For instance, the lettuces that I protect and baby against the wind are never as tasty as those that have to become stronger because of it. The tomatoes that I cut the water on are always the best. Also, I once accidentally solarized baby pepper and eggplants early in the season all the way back to their true leaves. I had several days of wondering if I needed to pull them and replant, but a little voice said to let them be and they happened to be the most beautiful plants I've ever had, about four feet tall by the end of the season with loads of fruit. Just look at the amazing amount of quotes around struggle and success in human life. I feel plant life is no different.

We like zettle. It’s quick.

Please share how much ice / water you keep in the coolers for which crops?

Please share how much ice / water you keep in the coolers for which crops?

Carrots all the way bro! C'mon! "QoS 'oH puchpa" If you we're fluent in Klingon, you'd be crappin ya daks right now, Just saying

Great job

Dude I just watched a video of the huge storms that have dumped snow on Florida.

Before I didn't trellis or string pepper plants, I would use the 3 ring 52/54 size tomato cages. Pepper plants are brittle and the weight of the bells will have them on the ground where the Japanese beetle grubs or moisture will ruin them. The 3 ring cages are horrible for tomatoes, but IMO work very well for pepper plants, and stack away come winter very nicely. Also, the galvanized 3 ring cages will not mark your peppers like the concrete wire homemade cages do.

4:45.....room with the "hot water heater". Is there any other kind? 🤔 Love the channel. Carry on!

Thank you for your hard work! Cooked for 13 years. You speak truth :-)

Home grower here, but I’ve never trellised or otherwise had to support sweet pepper plants. They seem to be easier than tomatoes in that way

People need to remember that one of the reasons weeds are weeds is that they often have a lifecycle concurrent with main crops. They aren't just plants that you can mow in the off season and call it good. Annual weeds germinate at the same time your crop is in the ground, smothering young transplants and robbing them of light, nutrients, and water. If they would just conveniently germinate in fall, grow nicely all winter, and winter kill, that'd be great. Unfortunately, that's not how they work.

I switched to bullhorn peppers a few years ago and love them because they're ready a lot sooner than bell peppers.