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Big Cover Crop Radishes--Are they good or not so good?
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- čas přidán 12. 11. 2010
- It seems like marketing companies like to show the "State Fair" Radishes in their sales pieces..."my radish is bigger than their radish" kind of marketing. Well, are the "State Fair" radishes that good? Are they "better" than the longer, smaller tubers? In this video you'll see what I found in a field in NW Ohio on 11/11/2010. I was plenty surprised by what I found. At the end of the video you'll see some info on Chickling Vetch as well.
With daikon radishes I have seen them cut down to the soil surface and allowed to decompose underground, releasing nutrients and conditioning the soil.
Great video, thanks!
Thanks for your kind words. 1) Some folks eat the radishes but I sure do not like to eat them! Deer love to eat them and so do other critters! 2) a "pan" would be a where the compaction zone is...either from tillage or compaction from equipment 3) Annual Ryegrass, Crimson Clover, Winter Cereal Rye, Oats, and other cover crops also do a very good job of reducing compaction.
You do use Cobalt for the legumes right?
@soilguy100 Thanks for the response to the video. I like the idea of experimenting and comparing different management practices. As you will tell from watching my other videos I have been looking at different mixes and different radishes too. I'd suggest looking at a few different varieties of Radish, and also look at different legumes too. If you'd like help locating different brands or varieties just let me know. I'll have a few suggestions for you.
Thanks Dave. You have a great name :) 3 questions please.
1. What do you do with those monster radishes? Eat them?
2. What is a pan? Is it the depth that plow goes to and therefor compacts the soil the below it. I am a city slicker learning stuff that is all.
3. What other green manure / cover crops have used on compacted soils successfully.
Your user name implies you do cover cropping a lot and the way you speak, you love doing it too. Outstanding!
Radishes can make a great ingredient in a cocktail blend. But they have to be in the blend for a reason. I'm not scared of these large radishes but they are not necessary! Good Video Dave!
I am impressed with the way that cover crops are used for the health of soil. However I can never get to see the preparation phase of the ground just before the cover crop seeds are applied. Can you do a video on ground preparation or advise how its done. I don't know if herbicides have to be used to keep The Unwanted grass down while cover crop seeds are broadcasted or not. If it is advisable to Simply broadcast the cover crop seeds into a short cut height grass. Thanks
Great video, Dave. One grower I work with (deep south Texas) has tried that combination (chickling vetch and tillage radish) and it seems to work well. Pans in our soils are devastating, which leads to deep ripping/discing. I'm trying to get growers to leave the soil alone as much as possible, and tillage radish may really help. We're starting experiments that will compare zone tillage with tillage radish with other cover crops to see if we can mellow some of our crusty, low OM soils. Thanks!
Thanks segarza, I hope you find the videos useful for your operation. The radishes should work quite well for you in North Texas. A few concerns is that you will have enough moisture and fertility to get them to achieve their genetic potential. I'd suggest that you plant the radish with crimson clover or Austrian Winter peas...or Arrowleaf or Berseem clover...or another legume to produce N to help feed the radish and help build soil OM. What you plant depends on when you plant.
Legumes need molybdenum to build the enzyme that separates the N2 in the air to make it into a nitrate. if there is a hard pan all surface/above hardpan might be depleted of molybdenum. if your applying inoculated legumes, molybdenum application might be an interesting test. hence the result of only have nodules deeper on the plant he dug up.
id love to see legume seeds inoculated with the bacteria and a small amout of molybdenum powder
And Cobalt. Molybdenum is needed for the Molybdenum nitrogenase enzyme (or Vanadium or Iron) and Cobalt is needed for a hemoglobin-like enzyme in the rhizobia bacteria to keep the oxygen away from the elemental nitrogen atoms floating around until it is converted into ammonia.
Great video.
Excellent video...
Radishes grow super well in clay and sand.
for my area the first killer frost is the first of october/ last of september, so next week, that will be ten weeks away.
Is possible to seed radishes without mixing and after winter plant no till corn?
Establishing with manure or 50 units of Nitrogen works best if you do not sow with a legume. Drilling the radishes into the soil will almost always provide a better stand than leaving the radish seed on top of the soil.
The last 2 years most areas are plagued with droughts even here in the deep south
New link to a new concept to typical farming and controlling your fertilizer costs.
dam that looks like a green catfish nice.
was this crop planted or broadcast and worked in to the soil?
Feed it to the pigs! Interesting! Good luck with this project! Give Love to the soil!
Wonder if growing broad beans (faba) then cut down with hay knife then seed with raddish
i wish i could find more information on these. i have some headlands id like to do soon.
You are failing to mention that these are delicious in stir fry ! There are 2 fields out in my area that I have been trying to hunt down the owners to ask to buy from.
why did he stop making videos?
Safe for anything. Radishes and cabbages are closely related. You can eat them too. He's pulled up 2 Daikon (skinny Japanese Radish) and a Mu (fat Korean Radish). They go well with beef and are staples of East Asian cooking. The large varieties tend to be much milder. I grow Minowase Daikon in my garden. They inhibit beans, but grow well with onions, carrots, & edible nightshades. My grandma just snacks on them raw, but I shred them up and put it with rare steak. They hyperaccumulate vitamin K.
Sorry it's been so long to reply. Go to plantcovercrops lots more info on cover crop radishes.
The radishes will die over the winter if temperatures reach 18-19 degrees for around 4 hours.
I planted a smaller root radish that had many side shoots and it survived single digit temperatures in NE Ohio. About 40% of the crop is thriving on 4/25.
I am trying to find out if you can eat the tops of a radish? The leaves look quite inviting to eat or juiced. Please would someone address this question. Maybe you farmers that grow them???
vic smith Most of the radish leaves are too 'fuzzy' to be able to eat. Juicing with apples might be a good idea as long as there are no chemicals in the leaves that should not be ingested.
Yes you can...its called mooli in indian cuisine...and its eaten cooked just like any greens...sauted with chopped onion, salt and sprinkling of shredded coconut. Yum!!!
Daikon radish leaves are soft with some crunch in the stem. I eat them raw or cooked. I also feed them to my chickens and to mealworms which are then fed to my chickens.
Thos are storage vessels for nitrogen they plant them here in Louisiana as cover crops
Does it winter kill for you? If not, how do you terminate?
Gramoxon in the spring
What type of livestock would you turn out in fields with these radishes? Safe for horses?
Sheep is the best.
Catfish or radish?
How do you kill them, and get rid of them do you just plough them down?
Yes or chop top off and let base decompose
Holey cow at the size and depth of thos radishes alot of farmers in Louisiana plant these in the fall and get excellent results
I wonder if a radish this size can be shredded up and made into sauerkraut?
+Charles Garrett sauerkraut? that would be cabbage friend.
+tututfifa I think he meant horse raddish
Sauerkraut can be far more than just cabbage. Maybe the store bought junk sauerkraut is just cabbage. I make my own with beets, cabbage, hot peppers, carrots and any other vegetable that has the same consistancey as shreaded cabbage. It is wonderful probiotic goodness.
Huh...I planted some. Not growing at all.
Wouldnt it be pretty tough to work with that kind of residue from the radishes?
that's what I was thinking too.
Chandler Bennett they should decompose
in south africa that horse redish
If it's not a big area, you can drop spread sand/soil over the seed. Other than that, on broadcasted seed, you don't. Tho, it seems to me that non-organic blue polymer coated seed gets pecked less, and germinates better on top of the ground. It has the inoculant /.fungicide all included in a little sponge coating.
Looks like some scumptious kimchi radishes to me!
Here in Missouri... I will tell you these things smell horrible when rotting.... sauerkraut farts... not pleasant folks...
This is not a scientific demo by any stretch. Who can tell how hard you really tried to dig that area away from the radish. I tried 2 competing varieties of tillage radish last year and was very disappointed with the results. It killed the red clover it was interplanted with and only grew to about a half inch diameter. No significant hard pan penetration. I would have been further ahead with straight red clover.
just till the dang thing...
PoconoPits2008 you aren't smart are you. Possibly misinformed.
PoconoPits2008 you aren't smart are you. Possibly misinformed.
PoconoPits2008 you aren't smart are you. Possibly misinformed.
PoconoPits2008 you aren't smart are you. Possibly misinformed.
No! They are delicious! I want to buy some!