Cover crop experiment.

Mommy planted a cover crop over the garden early this Spring.  It grew into a lovely field of yellow mustard blooms.  We decided rather than just plow it all over, we would try to "strip till" the rows so we would still have the advantage of the existing crop canopy and root structure where we didn't plant garden.  Strip till is used quite a bit in row crop farming and has been featured numerous times on the television show Ag Phd.

Full bloom!

Not shown, the thousands of bees pollinating the flowers.

Strip till bed created by mowing down a row with the mower, and then tilling said row with the rototiller.  Cross your fingers this works!