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How to grow a green manure crop from weeds to enrich your organic garden bed

What is a green manure? What are the advantages of using a green manure? How to make a green manure fertiliser? I answer ...
VTDigger

Ron Krupp: How to use cover crops and green manure to improve the garden

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Experts say manure benefits plants better with some amount of tillage

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 ...
TreeHugger

How I Protect the Soil in My Garden Over the Winter Months

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...
Democrat and Chronicle

Cover crops can enrich soil, smother weeds in your garden

You may have heard the saying, “nature abhors a vacuum.” Although it applies to many situations, farmers and gardeners have a unique understanding. They know that leaving a plot of land open ...
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No-tillage with total green manure mulching increases maize yield

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 ...
Treasure Coast Newspapers

Florida gardening: Pigeon peas for Treasure Coast gardens

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 ...