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While most crops shut down for winter, this tough cold-season cover crop keeps digging deep and improving the ground until ...

Looking to find cover crops for gardens? Learn when to plant cover crops and which ones are best for each season.2 The raised garden beds at Wild Abundance are built in the shape of a large leaf. The ...

No-till planting of sweet corn into a killed winter rye cover crop has the potential to provide soil health benefits such as reduced compaction, improved soil water holding capacity, reduced ...

When the season changes and your summer plants are gone, your soil begs for some sort of protection from the cold weather to come. Harsh winds, freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow can reek damage ...

For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for harvest. I prepare the soil for the next year ...

Crimson clover can be used as a cover crop in corn, soybeans and wheat fields to improve soil health. Much of the research on regenerative farming practices, such as no-till or cover crops, has looked ...

MANKATO, Minn. — Implementing no-till farming and other conservation practices can be great for your farm’s soil health and overall environment. But many have concerns when it comes to the cost of ...

Oats, daikon radish and legumes like vetch, fava or bell beans, as well as annual clovers, peas and wildflowers, will help replenish your soil. Even though daytime temperatures remain warm, the fall, ...

What’s your gardening style? The way we garden can determine whether we are increasing or decreasing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Carbon has been on my mind lately following the release of ...

Minor Memorial Library in Roxbury will present a program, “No-Till Cover Crops for the Home Garden: Small Scale Practices for Soil Improvement and Carbon Sequestration,” Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. Sharon ...

How much time and effort do you spend on your garden’s foundation? The soil is your plants’ nutrient source, and it can have a massive effect on your backyard crop haul. With this in mind, many ...