Cover cropping is not just for farming. Use this tried-and-tested technique in your vegetable garden or flower beds to enjoy ...

If you are looking for a cover crop that will winter-kill, some choices are oats, oilseed radish, sorghum-sudangrass or oats and oilseed radish seeded together. In addition to being terminated by ...

When Don Morse began growing cover crops, one of his main goals was to tackle the growing populations of marestail (horseweed) and waterhemp that defied traditional control measures.

A tropical grass is showing benefits to crops on Prince Edward Island. It's already being used in the potato rotation and new ...

If you are not planting a fall garden, you may want to consider a winter cover crop. A cover crop is a crop specifically ...

Additional cover crops have been bred for nematode management. Some of the oilseed-type radishes (Raphanus sativus var. oleifera) are not hosts for M. incognita but have the ability to induce egg ...

As the vibrant colors of autumn begin to blanket your garden, October presents the perfect opportunity to enhance your soil health and prepare your garden for the colder months ahead. Planting cover ...

Examples of cover crops are annual ryegrass, crimson clover, oats, oil-seed radishes, and cereal rye. Here are some cover crops benefits for your friends. Cover crops suppress weeds by posing a ...

Rather than leaving a field or patch of soil open over the winter, consider cover crops. A cover crop is basically a temporary seeding of an area that would otherwise have exposed soil. The crop is a ...

Mitchell then turned to Plan B – renting a rototiller to till the whole area and planting seeds of three cover crops (crimson clover, tillage radish, and buckwheat). “By early fall ...

While many farmers are growing cover crops over winter before spring crops, there is also the possibility of establishing a catch crop between harvest and an autumn ...