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

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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 ...

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 ...

You may remember when cover crops were referred to as “green manure,” which required being “plowed under.” We now know that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Establishing grass or green manure crops is the most obvious use for Zocon’s latest small seed applicator. The implement can ...