While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

No matter the type of farm, there’s an advantage to planting soil-feeding cover crops ahead of fall and winter. The assistance provided depends on the crops you plant. But there is definitely one out ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sergiy Akhundov / Getty Images Before you put your garden to bed, consider giving it a winter blanket—aka, a cover crop. Sowed in ...

Planting a cover crop like sorghum-sudangrass, a hybrid of the sorghum and sudangrass plants, is a natural way to improve your soil. Cover crops are commonly grown to address poor or nutrient-depleted ...

No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not acquainted with ...

Winter can be brutal on your garden soil. What was once rich, lively earth can turn into a hard, lifeless slab by the time spring arrives. But there’s hope—and it comes in the form of a cover crop ...

If you haven’t taken the leap and you’re unsure about whether or not to sow a cover crop, know that it’s worth it. Specifically, when it comes to your bottom line, cover crops save money. They may not ...

Q: I would like to plant a cover crop in my vegetable garden, but I’m not sure how to choose the best seed to plant. Can you recommend a good cover crop for this time of year? A: I’m glad you’re ...

In 2019, this producer took preventative planting due to wet spring conditions. Cereal rye was planted as a cover crop in fall 2018, so the producer decided to map the field for cover crop performance ...

Trimont crop consultant Stephan Melson, left, and Odin farmer Tom Peterson load a planter with corn seed near Butterfield, in southwestern Minnesota, in late April. Credit: MinnPost photo by Gregg ...