Fall is the perfect time to invest in next year's growing season. These hardworking plants quietly do their job while your ...

Cover crops enrich the soil, suppress weeds, and can save you money on amendments.

Gardeners clearing beds this October often wonder what comes next. Leaving soil exposed invites nutrient loss, compaction, and weeds. Cover crops offer a practical alternative that works for any home ...

One of the techniques many gardeners use to naturally reinvigorate their soil year after year is to plant fall cover crops when they’ve finished harvesting their summer vegetables. Most annual crop ...

Maybe after you finish your vegetable harvest, you mentally say, “I’m done this year,” and wait to start again next year. But a cover crop could benefit you in several ways. By researching now, you ...

If you're avoiding landscape fabric, what can you use instead? This cover crop is popular with farmers for its ability to break up topsoil and add nutrients.

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 ...

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 ...

Fall means asking how to improve soil for next year. Cover crops, which can include this crimson clover, are often called ...

Several good arguments can be made to scrap the traditional practice of tilling your vegetable garden at the end of each growing season.

For many gardeners, September marks the time to harvest the fruit and vegetables they've been growing throughout the year. However, according to expert Huw Richards, it's also an opportune moment to ...