Fall Planting Cover Crops: For Cold Climates

[@GardeningInCanada]

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[@dellaangel]

Your hair looks AMAZING. 😍 The color so vibrant, with elegant soft waves. Lovely!

[@vivb.7161]

This video has perfect timimg for me- west central Minnesota.

[@vivb.7161]

Do you follow David the Good? His video on homemade liquid fertilizer is great, I have had great experience with it this year- he calls it his Fetid Swamp Water- and it earns its name! But the stinkier the better! (My husband just shakes his head at me with this stuff, he just doesnt understand LOL)

[@marajokegr]

Great tip about buckwheat seeds for cheap. You can buy a bag of buckwheat in the grocery store (dry bean isle) and as long as they are raw (looks for a slight greenish colour, not toasted) they will sprout. I have done this before, but not as cover crop. I think I will try it.

[@gardentours]

This year I really have to get my cover crop in on time. Thank you very much for reminding me. Have a great weekend 🏖🌻 Greetings Heidi 👩‍🌾💕

[@GardeningInCanada]

Thank you! You too!

[@isobel8788]

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[@GardeningInCanada]

It’s henna 😆 so it’s slowly washes out over time

[@sapientisessevolo4364]

I got nothing to say, so here's some comment fertilizer for the algorithm

[@GardeningInCanada]

Comment fertilizer hahahaha i love this

[@paulafitzpatrick6519]

I was checking the farmers almanac for winter conditions in the northeast and we’re expecting a lot of cold, rain and snow. But I think I’ll do peas since they make the most sense for my smaller garden… I think 🤤. By the way, you’re looking really great! Hopefully you’re feeling great as well.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Awe thank you so much!

[@grantsilzer4460]

Thank you

[@GardeningInCanada]

You're welcome

[@rise4329]

Thank you again!😊

[@GardeningInCanada]

You're welcome 😊

[@SH-jy6lc]

After i harvested my brassicas, prickly thistle took over. Bees love them. I know thistle is a weed but can i use it as a cover crop? Lol I really cant be doing much gardening right now as im babysitting. Great video as always!

[@meganschmidt4867]

I have a layer of straw mulch in my beds - would I have to remove it before planting winter peas or just sow through it?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Nah. Just sow through it

[@marionohara5606]

Hi Ashley.......does cover croping worj in bins and grow bags? Thank you. 😊

[@nuitarik]

I have put fall leaves on top of my raised beds before to protect them from compaction from the snow. I cover crop is better, but is leave still a good idea?

[@valerie441]

I grow medicinal herb garden, so most of them perenials. I also have bad clay soil, so I would like to do anything to help my stragling plants. Since I cannot tilt gatden full of plants, can I still do cover crop? Not sure how since they all still blooming till first frost thou.

[@alyssa0411]

I have dense clay too. You can try daikon radish. Mixing in compost (as much as possible because I know dense clay can be a little difficult to work with) will also help.

[@alyssa0411]

… Oh and one more thing. Try not to dig up clay when it’s really wet and sticky. All that does when trying to mix with soil or compost is make the clay ball up. Then when the clay eventually dries out, you’re stuck with chunks of clay that are hard as rocks.

[@Coldtropics]

Have you ever grown comfrey or creeping comfrey is dwarf and it’s Perenial there is ones with white flowers

[@marthaduncan7694]

I'm looking for comfrey.....can't find it locally......I miss making salves and lotions with it....excellent for first aid, btw

[@GardeningInCanada]

I have never tried it here

[@damedesmontagnes]

I'm just north of Vancouver, WA. I wonder what I should plant. Help?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Go with oats or rye

[@damedesmontagnes]

@GardeningInCanada thank you dearest ♡

[@maggiesmith979]

Can I cover crop in soil that has been effected by a walnut tree? Beans in that area seems to be ok so far.

[@GardeningInCanada]

yea sure, no reason why now

[@brianseybert2189]

Grew some buckwheat in my onion bed, not sure what I am going to do with it. I had to put something in there, did not want to leave the soil barren. Because of the jumping worms I do not want to incorporate into the soil, too much food for them next year. Think I will just cut it before it goes to seed and leave as a mulch over the winter, then I can remove it in the spring before the jumping worm cocoons hatch out. My potato bed also had jumping worms last year. My plan here is to plant some clover and let it stand over winter then pull it before I plant my potatoes in the spring. Do you think this is a good plan? Your comments are always welcome. Stay Well!!!!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Have you tried solarizing the jumping worm areas out of curiosity?

[@brianseybert2189]

@@GardeningInCanada Really not an option. The temperature to kill the cocoons (103F) would not be reliable enough to heat the soil deep enough to affect the cocoons. You can certainly solarize the soil between a couple tarps, I did that with my leaf mold this spring. Another myth I discovered about the jumping worms is they stay in the top few inches of soil. I found them over a foot below the surface. A lot of bad information out there. I was successful "eliminating ?" the jumping worms from the onion bed. I laid a interior perimeter of shredded leaves along the inside of my onion bed. When the soil temps reached the mid 50'sF, the cocoons started hatching out, I physically removed 100's if not thousands. By the end of July I was no longer finding many jumping worms in the baiting area. I have several videos on my crusade against jumping worms that may interest you. Just click on the orange B. Stay Well!!!

[@vivb.7161]

I have had great results in pest control using homemade liquid fertilizer- just need a bucket, rainwater/filtered water (do not use tap water) and compostable stuff even weeds! Only thing i added was epsom salts for magnesium- Must use a lid, let it sit preferably in a sunny spot for min 2 wks to break down, then dilute it with non tap water, ratio 50/50 or weaker, pour on your plants, at the base, every week or so, then weakly when fruiting, it has restored apples trees (i poured it undiluted) that i thought were gonna die due to fungal infection - yes its stinky, so what, yes it anaerobic but its fine as soon as sunlight and O2 hit it, just dont pour it on something your planning on eating right away- then just keep adding compostable material and non tap water as you use it up-got idea from David the Good channel, video is about fetid swamp water- good luck

[@kendravoracek3636]

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[@GardeningInCanada]

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[@nicolephillips9991]

I have some beds that are freed up that I was planning on cover cropping. But when it comes to things like peppers and tomatoes that I will leave in until frost what do you recommend? Is it best to leave everything in the beds?

[@DavidFrater800]

I spread oats around the tomatoes and peppers, put on a light coat of straw and watered 3-4 weeks before my usual frost. Could do the same with winter wheat or winter rye, except you will have to terminate in the spring. Spring wheat, Spring barley and Spring triticale would terminate over the winter like the oats. Next year I may put some crimson clover, berseem, or balansa clover to add free nitrogen to the soil that will also terminate over the winter

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[@ienekevanhouten4559]

I was just thinking it is time to rip up some tired Hubbard squash vines and replace them with broad beans.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Are you tapped out for fruits? I would consider it yes

[@eell2864]

Noice

[@laneeacannon1450]

Build soil structure...then destroy that stuctute by tilling. 🤦‍♀️🙄

[@GardeningInCanada]

You should spend more time on the channel and that comment will be more in context for you.

[@tazwowe]

She says regularly that tilling destroys soil structure. You can tell by this video she doesn't think its a good idea, but if you do it, at least you're gardening