Cover Crops in the Garden-Part 1

Cover Crops are great way to improve your garden's soil and they are one of the easiest ways to start a new garden bed. This video explains the basics (the why, when, and how) of cover crops. Hi, I'm Amy with gardensthatmatter.com and I believe that your garden is the key to better food, a better life, and a better planet. I also believe that the key to a healthy, productive garden is the soil. And that is what this video is all about. Helping you create healthy, abundant, living soil through cover crops. We make and use a lot of compost to use in our garden, but compost is just one tool in the healthy soil toolbox. Cover crops is another and I hope this video inspires you to give them a try. Part of this video is an excerpt from our premium course on creating healthy soil called "Foundations of a Happy Garden--How to Bring Your Soil to Life With Compost, Mulch, and Cover Crops." To gain access to this class (and all of our classes) head over to https://www.gardensthatmatter.mn.co IF YOU LOVE GARDENING AS MUCH AS WE DO, CONSIDER JOINING OUR EXCLUSIVE COMMUNITY. www.gardensthatmatter.mn.com If you want to learn how to compost, here is a link to our Quick Start to Composting playlist here on YouTube.    • Quick Start to Composting   Below are links to resources we mention in the video. USDA Cover Crop Chart (download button on their site) https://www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/... Cover Crop Calculator https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com/ Here is a great video from another farm in our area on soil health/cover crops you might enjoy. It's a deep dive video. We are not affiliated, but we enjoy their workshops and videos. Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health    • Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gab...   Here is the cover crop seed we are spreading in this video. (We are not affiliated, nor do we receive compensation) https://www.kingsagriseeds.com/wp-con... Photo Attributions: Diverse by Ben Lardy/NRCS South Dakota/Flickr, CC BY-SA-2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nrcs_so... Pollen Crop by Tracy Robillard/NRCS Oregon/Flickr, CC BY-ND-2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nrcs_or... Mixed Field by Tracy Robillard/NRCS Oregon/Flickr, CC BY-ND-2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nrcs_or... Crimp Roller by Tracy Robillard/NRCS Oregon/Flickr, CC BY-ND-2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nrcs_or... Woman Spreading Seeds by pedarilhos/stock.adobe.com https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/2... Fertilizer spreader by nd700/stock.adobe.com https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/2... Field of buckwheat by Soru Epotok/stock.adobe.com https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/2... Daikon radish plants by sirisris/stock.adobe.com https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/2... Carrots in the garden by Lukas Gojda/stock.adobe.com https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/2... Outdoor garden plow job with a motor cultivator by Roman/stock.adobe.com https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/2... The Rye by Valery Sibrikov/stock.adobe.com https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/2... Rototiller in the garden by Philipimage/stock.adobe.com https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/2... Cover Crop Chart by USDA-ARS NGPRL https://www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/... Our theme music is from the The Let 'Em In Sessions album that is part of Wistia's free music collection. https://wistia.com/resources/music