One Weird Trick to Fix Farms Forever

[NickB79]

9. Cover crops have been used forever in gardening

The late-season drought and heatwave forced me to harvest my garden prematurely, so I'm now seeding it in with oats and winter rye. Both will grow until we get a hard freeze in mid-Oct, with the oats dying and insulating the roots of the winter rye. Come spring, the rye will resprout, and will grow another month until I till it in around late April.

Then, in late July, I start interplanting cheap pinto bean seeds everywhere there are gaps as a nitrogen crop to build up the soil.