{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Good Growing","title":"Ep. 60 Talking Cover Crops with Duane Friend","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/f527ef8f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2920,"description":"This week the Good Growing team chats with Illinois Extension educator Duane Friend about cover crops and soil organic matter. They discuss a recent article about how the Midwest is quickly losing carbon-rich topsoil and if that rings true for Illinois. Duane gives possible remedies to help conserve soil and how cover crops can play a role and how cover crops can be used in the home garden. Plus your questions:\nThere is a funky smell in the air near the farm fields. Is this rotting cover crops?\nWhat to do when your brand new home is left with lousy soil.\nCan cover crops be planted in the spring before planting tomatoes?\nCan cover crops become weeds?\nIs there a way to kill cover crops without using herbicides?\nI started using cover crops, but now I have voles in my garden. What can I do!?\nTilling my garden for years has caused the soil to settle. Will using cover crops stop the settling?\n\nCheck out Duane's upcoming webinar on Farm Pond Management https://extension.illinois.edu/events/2021-03-30-rural-pond-management-webinar\nDuane also has a new blog All About Weather https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/all-about-weather\n\nWant to watch the podcast? You can on YouTube https://youtu.be/3b-03cLAfr4","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/R8M4jy-2EktViSJpDBxEJL2IulcAlRJg8ktxlDJM3UA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNDE1LzE2ODk3/OTA0NTktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}