Green manures, or cover crops, offer a fantastic way to boost the health of your soil, and not enough gardeners take advantage. They improve the structure, enhance the nutrient levels, and also ...

There is a wonderful product to give your plants a growing boost. It takes time to work—about two to three months—but it doesn’t require too much effort, nor does it cost very much. For a small garden ...

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 ...

You won't find a pile of green manure beside a farmer's barn or under a neighbor's rabbit hutch. It's not an animal product. The term refers to fresh vegetable matter that is grown to be tilled into ...

FORT HALL, Idaho (AP) - Potato farmers in southeastern Idaho got a look at a possible weapon to fight weeds, insects and erosion: oriental mustard-seed plants. That plant and others were on display ...

Finding what works best for you in applying manure into your fields takes testing and experimenting, according to University of Minnesota Extension educator Chryseis Modderman. Surface application of ...

Let's take a moment to talk about green manure ... Stop! Come back! It's not what you think. For one, it has nothing to do with sick cows. Rather, green manure is simply a cover crop that is tilled ...

Most of you have heard manures are good for the garden. Today let's have a bit of fun seeing what else you know about them with this true-or-false quiz. The answers follow; cover them while you're ...

Fig.1 Structural equation model between soil water content (SWC), soil temperature (ST), root length (RL), canopy cover (CC), leaf stay-greenness (SG), chlorophyll content (SPAD), photosynthetic rate ...