Seed starting and garden planning activities are well under way. One gardening technique that many gardeners incorporate into their gardens is companion planting. What is companion planting? There isn ...

For farmers trying to Flip their Soil and improve soil health one simple thing they can do this fall is plant cereal rye as a cover crop and plant soybeans into that stand. Soil health experts say ...

Are your cows munching on clover or turnips this fall? Find more information about cover crop mixes and suggested seeding rates and read these common Q&A about covers. Send me a note what mix is ...

Our gardens function as interconnected ... Grow as a winter cover crop, mowing or cutting plants in spring when they come into bloom. Crimson clover can also be grown as a living mulch around ...

Crimson clover can grow in USDA Zones 3-9, however, it will grow as an annual up to Zone 5, and as a perennial in Zone 6 and above. Depending on your use, this may be good or bad. If you want to cover ...

One gardening technique that many gardeners incorporate into their gardens is companion planting ... includes the crops being grown but also non-crop plants. Essentially, trying to increase diversity ...

Fallows can be accomplished with a year-long cycle of cover crop planting and incorporation, such as field pea-buckwheat-winter rye, or a single sowing, such as red clover plus an annual grass like ...

Crop rotations in the Midwest U.S. have become less diversified over the last twenty years while at the same time cover crop acreage has increased. The impact of these changes on soil health and soil ...

As a legume, crimson clover also fixes nitrogen in the soil, so this companion plant works double duty. The flowers are quite lovely and harbor minute pirate bugs (Orius spp.), an insect that feeds on ...

Ferrie’s 10 years of cover crop strip trials usually produced negative ROIs. “Even if we didn’t lose yield, there was no additional yield to offset the cost of the cover crop,” he says.

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Seed starting and garden planning activities are well underway. One gardening technique that many gardeners incorporate into their gardens is companion planting.