The Urban Harvest - Homegrown Education | Summer Cover Crops You Can Eat @TheUrbanHarvest | Uploaded August 2019 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Cover crops are essential over the summer months in sustainable agriculture systems.Learn about 3 multi-use summer cover crops for your vegetable garden with Elise Pickett of The Urban Harvest. Using sweet potatoes, cowpea beans, & New Zealand spinach as a sustainable cover crop will protect your soil from a range of issues all while providing you with maintenance-free food over the growing season. Permaculture principles suggest we should always try to have more than one use for a plant and these three certainly fit that description! Using organic, sustainable, & budget-friendly techniques you will learn all about 3 different summer cover crops so you can grow your own productive Florida backyard vegetable garden. This easy how-to home gardening lesson will get even the beginner gardener to feel ready to grow vegetables in Florida.
0:00 Summer Cover Crops for Vegetable Gardens
0:35 Benefits of Cover Crops
1:28 Sweet Potatoes as a Cover Crop
3:00 Cowpeas as a Cover Crop
4:19 New Zealand Spinach as a Cover Crop
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Cover crops are essential over the summer months in sustainable agriculture systems.Learn about 3 multi-use summer cover crops for your vegetable garden with Elise Pickett of The Urban Harvest. Using sweet potatoes, cowpea beans, & New Zealand spinach as a sustainable cover crop will protect your soil from a range of issues all while providing you with maintenance-free food over the growing season. Permaculture principles suggest we should always try to have more than one use for a plant and these three certainly fit that description! Using organic, sustainable, & budget-friendly techniques you will learn all about 3 different summer cover crops so you can grow your own productive Florida backyard vegetable garden. This easy how-to home gardening lesson will get even the beginner gardener to feel ready to grow vegetables in Florida.
0:00 Summer Cover Crops for Vegetable Gardens
0:35 Benefits of Cover Crops
1:28 Sweet Potatoes as a Cover Crop
3:00 Cowpeas as a Cover Crop
4:19 New Zealand Spinach as a Cover Crop
__________________________________π Upcoming Events π _____________________________
I teach several classes online and in person a month on rotating topics:
theurbanharvest.com/collections/events
__________________________________ π± Buy Vegetable Seeds π±___________________________
Shop my curated collection of organic heirloom seeds that thrive here in Florida:
theurbanharvest.com/collections/seeds
_________________________________ π Florida Seed Club π______________________________
Get 3 varieties of in season veggie, herb, & flower seeds shipped to your door each month:
theurbanharvest.com/collections/subscription
_________________________________ π©πΌβπΎFree Planting Guide π©πΌβπΎ______________________________
Get a free Florida what to plant when cheat-sheet by subscribing to my free monthly newsletter:
theurbanharvest.com/#
___________________________βοΈ Recommended Garden Equipment List βοΈ_________________
Everything from fertilizer to tools:
theurbanharvest.com/pages/gardening-equipment
______________________________ πRecommended Reading List π ________________________
Suggested reading for starting a Florida veggie garden:
theurbanharvest.com/pages/education-library
______________________________ π Book a Virtual Consultation π________________________
Video calls to get all your questions answered - it can be as long or short as needed:
theurbanharvest.com/pages/contact
____________________________________ ππΌ Follow Me ππΌ ___________________________________
Follow me on Facebook & Instagram for quick tips and tricks:
facebook.com/theurbanharvestllc
instagram.com/theurbanharvest