REPLENISH your garden soil with this QUICK COVER CROP!

Sunn Hemp is a great warm-season cover crop for depleted or over-farmed soils. It provides ground cover, reduces erosion, adds organic matter and nitrogen to garden soils.
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[@diygardener4556]

When you plant your fall sweet corn, under sow the corn with Berseem clover. It will slowly establish in the understory of the corn also fixing nitrogen, then once the corn is finished the clover will come up fast and strong, untill you terminate it for cool weather crops, or the frost kills it. That way you establish a cover crop and your corn at the same time. The corn out compeats the Berseem with ease, then the Berseem stagnates in the shade untill the corn is finished.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Interesting. Thanks for the tip!

[@LittleCountryCabin]

Gotta love cover crops!! I’m also planning on tarping some areas. Great video!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for watching!

[@constancelovejoy7308]

Can one make straw bales out of sunn hemp? Can u show how to make straw bales from any cover crop or dried plant waste? 😊

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Never heard of making straw from it, but not saying that it's not possible either.

[@mrstn123]

I saw your video about adding potash for sweet potatoes. Now I know why mine didn’t make anything but vines last year! I ran and added muriate of potash . Will my vines make potatoes this year??? Or is it too late???

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Nah.

[@mrstn123]

Nah, it’s too late or nah it’s not too late? My bed is 30 by 20 feet . I used the bag that covers 400 ft.,

[@Horse237]

What about a cover crop that provides forage for animals?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Millet or Sorghum Sudangrass would work great for that.

[@Horse237]

Thanks.

[@nerdanderthalidontlikegoog7194]

So I don't need a prescription from Dr Dre to plant this?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Not at all!

[@fouroakfarm]

Cowpea is another warm season cover crop N fixer

[@gardeningwithhoss]

You are correct. We were mainly thinking of the ones we carry.

[@tommathews3964]

I'll be following this with interest. Always looking for a new cover crop! Especially fast growing N fixers! Thanks for taking us along....

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Sure thing!

[@michaelmorris1802]

my sunn hemp got really tall... and I never saw a flower... I finally just mowed it down and then tilled it in the next day. But yes it germinated really fast... in 48 hours I had a full stand. I just planted another section where my okra was with it. Didn't realize I could already be planting mustard... but I'm probably going to follow the hemp with mustard at least once if not twice before the spring... I want that spot to be really ready, and hopefully nematode free (or close to it). I want to grow a really nice stand of okra for a change.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

You should have some awesome soil after all that cover cropping!

[@wannabefarm4364]

I terminated my cover crop with the sweeps on my wheel hoe. Cut the plant off just beneath the surface and left the roots in the ground; which is the most important thing. Roots are really what give your soil the organic matter it needs.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Never thought of using the sweeps to do it, but we're definitely going to try to keep the roots in tact through the tarping process.

[@wannabefarm4364]

Hoss Tools You’ve forced me into a shameless plug. Here’s a link to the video I made about that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apmWYZiheNyrpJI It’s only in the first five minutes. I had mowed the crop down first and bagged the clippings and put them in the compost pile. It doesn’t look like it in the video, but the sweeps were cutting out the crop almost like sod. It made clean up pretty easy (though a garden rake would have made clean up MUCH faster). It left a clean, level seed bed too!

[@mandolinman2006]

Do you have something like this for winter? I've been trying Austrian winter peas but without much luck.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

We have several options for cool-weather cover crops. You can see them all here: hosstools.com/product-category/cover-crop-seed/cool-season/

[@wayneleviner6557]

I have sandy soil , will this work. And then after it grows , you said to mow it down, do I tiller it in the grow, then plant what I am going to plant. I have a little garden, about 150 ft. long by 60 ft. wide, some of the plants will come up , BUT there is more grass then plants.OR do you have something to get read of the grass.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

If you have so much grass that it's hard to grow a garden, you might consider tarping the area to get rid of the grass first. Then plant a cover crop.

[@user-ki3dj9pu9y]

Did you try the Sunhemp? I have a similar situation, Sandy soil about the same size as yours too. Trying to add some organic matter in with cover crop.

[@agustasister5624]

What what about those flowers and leaves...are they vase freindly...i only do about quarter acre and mostly flowers...but want to do aome.cover crops

[@gardeningwithhoss]

You could put them in a vase. Never tested the shelf life though.

[@norhilltx]

They do surprisingly well in a vase.

[@CAMMET1973]

The sun hemp from Hoss survived the drought we had this summer. Thankful!

[@modifiedtraditionalgardeni9938]

Two wheel tractor / Flail mower

[@SgtSnausages]

" ... the only warm season cover crop that is a nitrogen fixer ..." Tell that to my Iron & Clay Cowpeas ...

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Yes that is another one. We were thinking among the cover crops we carry.

[@smokyplantationfarms3806]

Thank you Hoss seeds for my sunn hemp cover crop seeds I just purchased. 3 days I had germination following sweet corn. I mixed cowpeas and soybeans with the sunn hemp, can't wait to see it thick as a jungle!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Sounds great!

[@johac7637]

What inoculant does it require ? I like a buffet so want to interplant with cowpeas, flax, mung beans. Ideas.i have a fair bit of tilled in wood chips I'm in Arizona, poor poor dirt when I started.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

The sun hemp does not need an inoculant. We do have one beans and peas. hosstools.com/product/granular-garden-soil-inoculant/

[@heatherreis7839]

Does sunn hemp regrow once cut? And how long should i wait before planting stuff in to the garden beds after tilling the hemp all in?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

If cut shorter than 12 inches it will not. When stalks degrade enough, you can till in and plant.

[@tylersingleton7992]

the no till method is definitely the way to go, keep the organic matter in the soil. I want to do something like this with some other varieties here in the southeast, ill do the same and tarp it and plant over the previous crop. cover crop rotation is definitley the best way to go

[@GTILOUD]

Look into natural farming

[@sdfft820]

Will sunn hemp grow in Ohio?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Yes you should be able to.

[@brianking6671]

topic for a row by row episode? hoss seeder vs the jang.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Haha. We won't disparage the competition. The Jang is a great seeder for small seeds. Ours is a more versatile unit with ease of customizing the plates.