The Best Cool Season Cover Crop Blend!

Cover crops offer enormous benefits for the home gardener, and those benefits are compounded when using a blend of multiple species. This video focuses on one of the best cool season cover crop blends, a mix which harnesses the power of legumes & cereal grain.

My favorite cool season cover crop blend contains oats, peas and vetch. I share how to plant, how to terminate and how I use this mix in my own garden, as well as the benefits offered by each of the components.

For more on cover cropping in the home garden, check out this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4zzslvkscX39ZhMYn3TsqP3taiLRt9JF

00:00 Intro
00:53 Planting- timing and how to plant
03:02 How to terminate and use in the garden
07:16 Benefits

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