Jenny Marks - The Business Side Of Flower Farming

I’m always trying to find easier ways to do things on the farm, and this method of using mustard as a bio-fumigant in our soil (and as a way to add organic matter) has been one of the best.

All I do is seed mustard in mid August, wait until they flower, mow them down with a flail mower, immediately water (we use overhead wobblers from @neversinkfarmtools), and then cover with a tarp. There’s a lot of cool research from @cornelluniversity about this.

We’ll leave the house shut up like this until it’s time to prep for planting in spring.