The EASIEST GARDEN PREP We've Ever Had!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Do you use cover crops in your backyard garden? 0:00 Intro 0:30 This Cover Crop Is Growing So Fast! 2:04 What Will We Do with All This Bare Soil? 3:40 When Should You Plant Cover Crops? 6:17 Planting White Proso Millet for a Cover Crop 9:09 Prepping Our Fall Garden Plot 11:12 How Can You Add Cover Crops to Your Garden?

[@clinthutcheson2640]

Planted my collards today

[@TexasNana2]

Cover crops are very beneficial. Thanks for your video 😊

[@MissBetsyLu]

Agreed.. many blessings everyone everywhere

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

I have planted a bunch of crimson clover. And started some field peas in one of my plots.

[@MissBetsyLu]

Sounds great. Crimson clover is just beautiful and I believe field peas are edible greens. Blessings everyone everywhere.

[@melindachavis7697]

Travis, thank you so much for offering the Turkey Creek tomato seeds. These are exceptional. Perfect balance, and huge beefsteaks. They have the taste that I recall from tomatoes I had as a kid. These will likely be the primary variety in my garden for years.

[@geegaw1535]

Thank you for explaining cover crops❤

[@kevindavis3841]

That was a great answer my friend. Living on a hillside and finally getting raised beds increased I’m studying cover cropping. Thank you for sharing brother 🙏🏻

[@everettmcdonald2088]

Enjoyed the video Travis. For those of us with small gardens, mine is 30x30 in raised beds. Cover cropping can best be utilized as a fill in for the time between the harvest of spring vegetables and planting of fall vegetables. All we do is get a cheap bag of field peas at grocery store and broadcast them the way you do. When it’s time to plant fall veggies, just mow the peas down and turn them in, or mow them down and put plant material as a green component with brown leaves for compost. Compost should be the focus of attention for fertility in the small garden. If a section is not going to be planted for winter, put down an inch or two of compost and cover with a couple inches of leaves to just rest for the winter. By spring the biology will have worked it in and it will be fertile and ready to plant. I think it’s all a question of scale, your bigger gardens are better served by cover crops.

[@dvrmte]

I planted one section with a brassica cover crop a few days ago and it's up and growing. I hope to get the area I had in sweet potatoes planted soon with the same thing. The rest is my field corn and most of it is still drying. Once I harvest it all, I'll knock the stalks down, mow it and leave it till Spring. I have a huge compost pile that will be ready by Spring. That will go where some of the corn was grown.

[@nadinelataille7462]

I have elevated raised bed and do cover crops as well. Here in New England we don’t have a long growing season so I try to keep the soil healthy with cover crops.

[@brycekirby1567]

"Cover crops not exciting " that is crazy talk, lol, great video

[@LazyDogFarm]

Glad you enjoyed

[@davidward1259]

What???? NO DAWG's BUCKET for the seeds???? Oh, no!!! What were you thinking Travis? For our small garden of 3' wide raised beds, I just strip them bare, till, and put to rest until needed by covering with 3' wide DeWitt Sunbelt landscape fabric. In the spring, I just pull up the pins/staples and roll up the 20' pieces of fabric to reuse again (Sunbelt is rated for 5 year continuous exposure to the sun). We only have 4 of the 3'x20' beds so that works well for us. In the spring I will till in some Soil3 compost from Super-Sod with some dolemite pelleted lime and I'm good to plant (I bought 2 of their cubic yard containers a while back and have a good bit left to freshen the soil each spring).

[@billelrod1779]

Those Tennessee Purple Beans might be a variation of Cherokee Trail of Tears beans..mine were purple at a certain stage of development, then went on to the traditional black bean

[@tannenbaumgirl3100]

You can grow Ginger in the same way.

[@bwayne40004]

Just walked in from my regular garden plot and the cover crop on it. Reseeded buckwheat, my first year for that and maybe I should have knocked it down a couple weeks earlier. But it isn't thick so probably a good deal. Newly sowed winter peas, hairy vetch and about every brassica I had handy in handful quantities. From tillage radish and seven top to purple top, mustard, kale, collards and even cleaned out my old salad radishes. Looks good. I sowed directly into the standing buckwheat then mowed it. Used that as a mulch for the seed and put some water to it. Curious to see how the cold weather affects the blend as temps go into winter.

[@raneesmith3530]

I started using cover crops in my raised beds about two years and I love it, I do believe it has helped my soil a lot

[@jeanniewoodrich8712]

I VERY much appreciate the cover crop topic! I just have 2 raised beds and really need to better understand how to terminate and remain no till!

[@rondaanderson1390]

Why do you grow so much turmeric? Do you sell in farmers market? How do you use it?

[@MissBetsyLu]

I'm fairly certain they are sellers. Blessings everybody.

[@waynespringer501]

I don't need any cover crop, I have access to bulk mushroom compost from a mushroom farm that has an abundance of organic matter already in the compost for only $35 a pickup bed full.

[@LazyDogFarm]

That's a great deal on mushroom compost!

[@billytaylor3448]

never tried mushroom compost, do you have a problem with mushrooms growing?

[@murdok1100]

what are the dimensions of the base of your chicken tractor

[@esmysyield2023]

I recieved my Egyptian walking onions todays. Thank you so much. Will you be putting the Louisiana evergreen shallots up for sale next year? Or maybe again this year?

[@LazyDogFarm]

We should have more again next year around late summer.

[@GarySmoal]

Do you still do pop up life

[@maureenkonieczny9330]

What is the process for the no till method you have mentioned in other videos?

[@lisafahrner8257]

What do you do with the turmeric?

[@daniellewoodward4728]

My garden is all raised beds would you grow cover crops

[@MissBetsyLu]

I sure would!! Especially beans/peas depending on growing zone. Many grand blessings everyone everywhere.

[@2skyland]

Do the chickens stay in the tractor all the time or do they go into a separate coop at night?

[@LazyDogFarm]

They stay in there all the time. We tried an electric fencing around the tractor several years ago to let them roam during the day. But they all got picked off by predators. So they're much safer inside the tractor.

[@2skyland]

@@LazyDogFarm Thanks! I may try that then...we have chickens that I was herding in and out from a coop to a tractor and then to where I wanted them but it's just one more step I'm trying to avoid. lol

[@stephenclausen3494]

@LazyDogFarm - When you tarp a garden bed, how early can you do this? I live north of Atlanta, could I tarp my garden bed now and leave it until I start next Spring?

[@LazyDogFarm]

You certainly could. If the goal is to reduce your weed seed bank, I'd recommend pulling back the tarp every month, lightly cultivating, watering heavily, then putting the tarp back on.