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 Many cover crops were planted in September and even into early October in much of the Midwest in 2011. Some of those cover crops are not very advanced in their growth by mid-November. Does this mean that they are useless or worthless? As I often say in meetings or at field days…”always take a shovel with . . . → Read More: Short Cover Crops Put Down Deep Roots   My wife Sally must love me…or at least she is observant to see how cover crops are improving the soil in our family gardens. Over the nearly 19 years we have lived in our home we have had a garden where we often have raised vegetables for the Hispanic families that we minister to. A few . . . → Read More: Cover crops for gardens – and my wife, the cover cropping queen!  Leave a comment  Austrian Winter Peas, Breaking Up Compaction, Cover Crop Benefits, Cover Crop Roots, Cover Crops and Earthworms, Crimson Clover, Education, Red Clover, Soil Improvement, Turnips, Types of Cover Crops, Weed Suppression  chilis, cover crops, earthworms, flowers, improved varieties. cover crops for gardens, peppers, reducing compaction Robison Farms in the Greenwood, Indiana area have been no-till farming since the late 1960′s. The field that these videos were taken from has been no-tilled for approximately 20 consecutive years. With the wet spring of 2011 the gentleman that now does the field work for dad decided to chisel plow and disk most of the . . . → Read More: Earthworm Population Corn Field Experiment  This is not a scene from a horror flick…it's a scene from Frank Gibb's experiment showing that smoke was coming up from the tile drains over 200 feet from the tile entry point. I had a “see it to believe it” moment in late August near Stryker, Ohio (Williams County – NW Ohio). A very long . . . → Read More: 66″ No-Till Corn Roots Following Cover Crops  I am so pleased to present these photos of how well my friend Dave’s soybeans planted into tall cereal rye looks. Dave is from central Indiana between Indy and Lafayette. See the previous photo diary here. I know Dave gained lots of encouragement to try this from Howard and Mike Weller from the Continental, Ohio area. . . . → Read More: Photo Diary – Soybeans planted into a Cereal Rye cover crop- part 2 |
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