In addition to diseased plants, you should also pull weeds from your garden as soon as possible to ensure they don’t get the ...

If you know your soil is full of all the nutrients you need, find a quick-growing crop to hold the soil in place. Grains, ...

Cover crop treatments of cowpea and bare ground had the greatest total marketable onion yield both years of the experiments. When supplemental baled millet was applied, however, onion mortality was ...

The Fort Braden Community Garden was begun on a field of pasture grass which had been mowed and maintained by Leon County for a number of years. Some gardeners built raised beds and filled them with ...

While most crops shut down for winter, this tough cold-season cover crop keeps digging deep and improving the ground until ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A primary challenge of managing vegetable production on a small land base is the maintenance and building of soil quality. Previous studies ...

A farm attendant doing mulching at a cabbage farm in Kisumu county. [Denish Ochieng, Standard] Want to improve your soil? Plant cover crops. A cover crop is grown primarily for the benefit of the soil ...

Cover crops are plants that are planted to cover the soil to keep it in place and improve soil health. They can be intercropped with other crops or planted after harvesting. The crops are mainly grown ...