Cool-season cover crops offer endless benefits for soils. Erosion control, weed suppression, nutrient scavenging, soil conditioning, nitrogen fixation and so much …

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  1. Tell me how you keep your sweet potatoes from sprouting. I harvested mine and put them in the shed to cure. Sprouts started to appear 4 weeks into the curing process. I took them in the a/C and stored them in a tub in the dark. Still continued to sprout.

  2. I really appreciate these videos from Hoss tools, as well as JM Fortier from the Market Gardener with his BCS tractor. If I recall correctly his book mentions Hoss and both of your operations seem to complement each other.

  3. Sweet potatoes look fantastic to me! Cool weather cover crop cocktail…I’d butcher trying to say that 😂.
    👀👀 them cover crops would like nice on this KY hard clay! Great video brother

  4. Oilseed Radish are ideal for zone 6. I have them planted everywhere. The only problem is that they do not support mycorrhizae. I should have grown Cereal Rye with it or Oats. The problem with Cereal Rye is that it last so far into the spring that it can delay planting. The deer will eat every one of those Austrian Winter Peas. They LOVE legumes. Hairy Vetch is the "Queen of the Legumes". But as far as I can see the deer don't bother it. Hairy Vetch is such a great cover crop bc it is perennial. If you let your Radish go to seed they will also volunteer. Using cover crops is so much fun bc they are all different.

  5. I'm in Jacksonville Florida (9a) and my soil is pretty sandy and this is my first time gardening. I've tilled the grass and weeds twice now and want to prep it for my Spring Garden. What would you recommend?

  6. I am trying cover crops in my raised beds in the recycled tomato and potato soil out of containers. Hope I get nutrient rich, disease free soil again. Found lots of beatle larvae as well. They can nibble now on the cover crop roots rather than on next year’s cabbage seedlings.

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