Summer Cover Crops You Can Eat

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 __________________________________📆 Upcoming Events 📆 _____________________________ I teach several classes online and in person a month on rotating topics: https://theurbanharvest.com/collections/events __________________________________ 🌱 Buy Vegetable Seeds 🌱___________________________ Shop my curated collection of organic heirloom seeds that thrive here in Florida: https://theurbanharvest.com/collections/seeds _________________________________ 👋 Florida Seed Club 👋______________________________ Get 3 varieties of in season veggie, herb, & flower seeds shipped to your door each month: https://theurbanharvest.com/collections/subscription _________________________________ 👩🏼‍🌾Free Planting Guide 👩🏼‍🌾______________________________ Get a free Florida what to plant when cheat-sheet by subscribing to my free monthly newsletter: https://theurbanharvest.com/# ___________________________☀️ Recommended Garden Equipment List ☀️_________________ Everything from fertilizer to tools: https://theurbanharvest.com/pages/gardening-equipment ______________________________ 📚Recommended Reading List 📚 ________________________ Suggested reading for starting a Florida veggie garden: https://theurbanharvest.com/pages/education-library ______________________________ 👋 Book a Virtual Consultation 👋________________________ Video calls to get all your questions answered - it can be as long or short as needed: https://theurbanharvest.com/pages/contact ____________________________________ 👍🏼 Follow Me 👍🏼 ___________________________________ Follow me on Facebook & Instagram for quick tips and tricks: https://www.facebook.com/theurbanharvestllc/ https://www.instagram.com/theurbanharvest/