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 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 Crimson clover is a top nitrogen producer and beautiful as well. Crimson clover is a real jewel among the cover crop species. Crimson clover is an excellent producer of nitrogen and there are some newer varieties on the market that are very winterhardy even into Michigan. Dr. Eileen Kladivko measured how much nitrogen was produced by . . . → Read More: Crimson Clover; a jewel among the cover crop legumes Earthworms are exceptionally valuable builders of healthy, fertile topsoil. Jill Clapperton stated that a good sign of a healthy topsoil was that a “shovel-full of soil” should have 8 earthworms in it. In my field diggings I have found anywhere from ZERO to 10 erathworms per shovel-full. I found 10 in crimson clover, 8 in annual ryegrass, 7 in my Austrian winter peas, 10 in my annual ryegrass/crimson clover mix and ZERO where I had no cover crop.
 Earthworms thrive in many cover crops Continue reading Earthworms…valuable resource on farm ground |
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