Hey everyone,
I am a newbie gardener, but over the last 8 months with the help of a permie friend, I have ripped up all the sod in my Van Nuys (L.A.) backyard (plastic netting underneath wouldn't let me sheet mulch) broken up my concrete with a sledge and made urbanite raised beds, planted 9 fruit trees, winter and now spring vegetables, dug swales, planted cover crops, and composted a small mountain of local leaves.
So, after all that back-breaking work, things are going great with me just letting things go to a great degree, which absolutely amazes me, but I figured I would start posting here with questions because there is still so much I do not know.
I planted peaceful valley nitrocoated good bug blend as a cover crop in the swales I dug (and the berms) in my clay soil. Its all growing like gangbusters, but all the daikon has bolted. I am reading online that I should pull it all up, but wanted to know if that was really necessary. Does anybody have an opinion on this? I have included a picture of the cover crops below, as well as a couple of photos of the work we have done. There is a public facebook photo album detailing our work for anyone interested...
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150361355179142.356924.752824141&type=3
Thanks for any input!
Ben
