Sow the four best summer cover crops for fast-growing, weed-suppressing soil builders in any patch possible, even during your prime gardening season. No gardening practice yields as many benefits ...

Ground covers and cover crops sound similar, but have different roles in your yard and garden. The one thing they do have in common, however, is suppressing weeds. Choosing between them as weed ...

First and foremost, it’s crucial not to delay. While cover crops offer numerous benefits to a vegetable garden, they can go to seed when left unattended, ultimately creating a massive seedbed ...

What’s cover cropping all about, anyway? As with many eco initiatives, what was old is new again: Cover crops (or fallow season plantings; see more below) were first used during the Roman Empire as a ...

People have assumed climate change solutions that sequester carbon from the air into soils will also benefit crop yields. But ...

Growing a cover crop the season before planting potatoes can also add organic matter in the soil. In addition to growing in traditional in-ground garden beds, potatoes can be successfully grown in ...

Cover crop inter-seeding refers to the practice of planting a forage crop in grain crop rows. This is not a new practice, but ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, a factor that’s underestimated in considering the ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - People have assumed climate change solutions that sequester carbon from the air into soils will also benefit crop yields. But a new study from Cornell University finds that most ...