Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Thank goodness for the rain this week. It has turned drier in the area and who would have thought with the extreme wet spring and early summer of 2019. As ...

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 ...

I was recently asked to look at a new-to-the-owner garden where Indian Paintbrush, a lovely native wildflower, was coming up in sheets. That seemed unlikely, since our native Paintbrushes (Castilleja ...

Your cotton fields might benefit from several kinds of winter cover crops which can control erosion, manage nutrients, and improve soil health, including a crimson clover cover crop or even a vetch ...

Question: Every fall I have good intentions of planting cover crops on my vegetable garden beds after harvest. But my tomatoes, winter squash etc. usually are still growing until the end of October.

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Plant material labeled with ¹⁵N is often used to determine recovery of N from green manure crops by subsequent crops. In this study, ¹⁵N ...