Cover cropping – oats and peas, please!

The new area in our backyard now has a nice cover crop mix of peas and oats. In late June we planted buckwheat, which matured through the season and was cut and tilled in during the month of August. After that Spink drilled in the mix of oats and peas, which will fix nitrogen, build a nice deep root system and winter kill leaving great organic matter behind. There is still quite a bit of buckwheat in there too and we think that will be okay. The condition of this soil is so much more amazing than that of our Lark plot. We are super excited for growing veggies in here next spring!