Q: What is the difference between a green manure and a cover crop? Answer: Green manures and cover crops are grown to protect or prepare the soil for what we call cash crops to be harvested and used ...

Whether you’re a small-time gardener or a big scale farmer growing cover crops like corn and soybeans can benefit you and your soil. Cover crops are referred to as “green manure” because they provide ...

Growing your own vegetables is rewarding and a great way to provide your family with fresh produce. Thanks to our mild Florida winters, backyard gardens can be productive all year long. Sustaining all ...

As your vegetable garden winds down for the season, it can be tempting to simply let it rest until spring. But what if you ...

Long before the advent of synthetic plant foods, farmers had only two ways to make their fields more fertile. One method was to spread manure from livestock, which proved a labor-intensive method that ...

Your garden has done a great job of feeding you this season, why not return the favor? Instead of leaving the ground open over the winter, consider planting a cover crop, also known as green manure.

Outdoor cannabis gardens lie at the mercy of the elements, and risk contaminating their surrounding environment with fertilizers and herbicides. Before you use chemicals on the farm, make sure to take ...

In addition to providing all the other benefits of a cover crop, crimson clover supplies plants with nitrogen. (8mitsu) No one wants to think of harvest's end as the garden reaches peak, but now's the ...

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Your garden has done a great job of feeding you this season, why not return the favor? Instead of leaving the ground open over the winter, consider planting a cover crop, also known as green manure.

Field experiments were conducted on a silty clay loam in Corvallis, OR during the summers of 1995 and 1996 to study the effects of soil solarization, spring-planted green manure crops, fumigation with ...

Is your veggie garden done for the season? There are a couple things you can do; let the garden go fallow, unplanted, cover it up with clear plastic for 6–8 weeks of solarization or plant ...