Choosing The Best Way To Use COVER CROPS With WOODCHIPS In A NO DIG Garden

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[@trockodile]

I love the realness of your videos man! None of this picture perfect stylized and staged videos here. Loving that it's all about the soil fertility, the food and the family. More power to you, just awesome! 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😁

[@rosehart341]

Yes, too many gardening programs are not realistic. We don't all have beautiful walled gardens with hundreds of pounds worth of lovely raised beds and invisible gardeners who are probably doing all the work! Most of us are short of time and or money and Monty's style of make do and mend is much more relevant.

[@raycharles9194]

This would make brilliant TV.. But it'll never be shown because it's real.. Gritty and not promoting spending fortunes on shop bought materials.. This is why we love what you do

[@mgk16]

Waalaikumsalam warahmatullahi wabarokatuh... Good job bro... 👍🏼👍🏼 Salam from Indonesian 🇮🇩

[@BloosSelfReliance]

I really do like that level of yours brilliant!!!

[@MyFamilyGarden]

It's been brilliant over the years but Starting to fall apart

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One of the larger gaming content produces I sometimes watch says that even a random, none sensical comment can help a channel. Funny how these things work. Love the video, by the way 👍❤👌

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it helps demonstrate viewer satisfaction

[@catofamilyfarm]

That compost lools great.

[@joanpulley9722]

Wow I like that soil leveller !

[@sandideak4125]

Thank you for some great tips for bed prep!

[@ifeelikedyeing360]

Love what you're doing mate!

[@reneethomas5548]

I agree with you on when to use compost.

[@gut-friendlynutrition]

Amazing stuff! Real quality

[@twelvesmylimit]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@izzywizzy2361]

Now I know I need to chop down my broad bean cover-crops and cover with breaking down woodchips (a year old) ready for sowing my potatoes in March. Cheers Monty👍

[@mgk16]

Waalaikumsalam barokallah akhi 👍🏼👍🏼

[@MsStme]

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾

[@msnessa3021]

Great information!

[@lindamorrell3677]

thanks for sharing, some great ideas

[@MikeJRe2ipi]

The reason some people say you can apply compost any time of the year is because they are not bothered about nutrient leaching. The nutrients become available to plants through biological processes in the soil thanks to the compost as a mulch not a fertiliser. If I had a 'rough' compost in Autumn and needed my compost bay to start a new heap I would spread it and sow a cover crop on it if I wasn't going to sow/plant something to overwinter.

[@othman5053]

waalaikummussalam...salam malaysia...

[@growshakephil]

I’ve always worried about planting into my aged woodchips for fear of nutrient leaching, but this gives me hope that I don’t have to sieve for 8 hours

[@MyFamilyGarden]

I like to start off with potatoes in woodchips then plant different things as the woodchips break down each year

[@deafprof]

Good stuff Monty! Peace!

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Comment for the algorithm 😆. Greetings from Germany!

[@myrustygarden]

Certainly looking good and great to be outside again I’m sure. Hopefully everyone is doing well 👍🐝 safe keep growing 🇨🇦

[@MyFamilyGarden]

So glad to get a full day outside. We're all good hope you are well

[@paxtianodirtfrog8947]

I saw this and had to check it out ! I agree, I think you are better to cover crop in fall and add compost in spring. I love how you did it. It's good hollering at you again friend!

[@MyFamilyGarden]

Nice to hear from you bro. Absolutely it makes so much more sense to protect the soil with something living

[@greenfingers9437]

Thanks for sharing this video, can you tell me when I should be sowing my green manure seeds please? I have harvested my potatoes and have nothing to plant in my raised bed so I bought a packet of seeds from the garden centre today and need your advice please.

[@paolof4081]

Love your video again Monty I’m gonna copy your levelling tool and make one it’s a ace idea. Hopefully we’ll all get fantastic crops this year, take care god bless you and your family 👍🏽

[@marufyusuf303]

Good job 👏

[@marksallotmentplot]

Great update Mothin 👍 Good to see you back outside again. I’ve got a few no sig beds and will deffo be looking into cover crops following this 👍

[@MyFamilyGarden]

Cover crops a great way of protecting the garden over winter, there are some no diggers that discourage their use but I've found them really useful

[@markshaw5835]

Always enjoy watching how u prepare the soil. Makes alot of sense. This year I added alot of homemade compost to my soil. So hoping it will help my crops grow better this year. I had to level my beds up they where new last year and some part dipped down further then others

[@MyFamilyGarden]

Thanks Mark, that compost should really make a difference

[@markshaw5835]

@@MyFamilyGarden thanks. I had about a ton or just under in home made compost

[@joannewilliams5589]

Love this, I’ve got loads of partially broken down woodchips.

[@MyFamilyGarden]

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[@joannewilliams5589]

@@MyFamilyGarden thanks

[@greenfingers359]

Thank you for this informative video Monty. I wondered how to best deal with bindeeed. I took on an allotment plot last year and its been really persistent. Other allotment holders recommend putting down weed killer but I'm not for that as I dont want poisons anywhere near me nor the soil I'm working with. Do you or anyone else here have any suggestions please? Many thanks.

[@fordtelly6573]

Charles Dowding covers this on his channel. Worth a search on there. Smother them with layers of cardboard or plastic tarpaulin etc to weaken and kill most. Some will persist but he says that as soon as you see it pull it out and gradually over time it will weaken the plant and die off. Another method I've heard of if you do end up using weedkiller, is to train the bindweed up a stick. Then when you have enough growth, bundle it into a freezer bag. Then spray weedkiller into the bag and tie the bag up to close and then wait. You are then only killing the bindweed and not the rest of your garden.

[@bertaochoalopez5817]

What type covering crop you had on this bed? Great video thank you for all your advice

[@MyFamilyGarden]

Mustard, here's the explanation kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHaYfJ-JZdmDe5I

[@annal3708]

🙏🙏🙏

[@greenfingers9437]

Can I use black weed membrane to cover or do I have to get some cardboard?

[@catherinematthews9573]

Hi - clueless new gardener here yet again. I'm following your month by month videos and in autumn I put cardboard over my raised beds (and followed your advice on planting garlic which is growing). I'd assumed I was supposed to take the cardboard up when it was time to plant but now I'm guessing I just put soil on top. So I have two, probably stupid, questions. When I come to plant things like carrots directly into the beds how do I get through the cardboard which has only broken down a little bit. Secondly I've only had a compost bin for a year and initially I didn't know what I was doing so I haven't yet got brilliant crumbly compost. Thanks again for all the advice and tips.

[@MyFamilyGarden]

for most things soil over the top will be good enough, the gardboard will break down quicker when it's covered, things like carrots are better planted in really lose sandy soils, i grow them in raised container to avoid crrot fly - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpDPZoZmjb19bZI

[@catherinematthews9573]

@@MyFamilyGarden thanks.

[@MikeJRe2ipi]

Cut slits in the cardboard where you want to sow carrots, add some bought sieved compost (and some sand if you want), sow your carrot seed, make sure the compost doesn't dry out, cover to make sure birds don't throw your line of compost everywhere. Some people put a piece of wood over the row to reduce evaporation but shouldnt be a problem till Summer depending on your climate.

[@catherinematthews9573]

@@MikeJRe2ipi thanks for that

[@familyfruit9833]

Fascinating, thank you. So do you find the cover crop seeds germinate happily in the woodchip?

[@MyFamilyGarden]

Yes, absolutely, i broadcast them in autumn and off they go

[@Allotmentman62]

Hhhmm, I could make me one of them soil levellers 👌👌🙂🙂

[@MyFamilyGarden]

They come in really handy