Cover cropping is not just for farming. Use this tried-and-tested technique in your vegetable garden or flower beds to enjoy ...

As the vibrant colors of autumn begin to blanket your garden, October presents the perfect opportunity to enhance your soil health and prepare your garden for the colder months ahead. Planting cover ...

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Columbiana SWCD Program Administrator Pete Conkle shares tips for extending grazing days, following a period of drought.

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Half of the plot was a cereal rye and hairy vetch mixture, and the other half was cereal rye and crimson clover. The next section was not planted with any cover crop and winter annuals can be seen in ...

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 have herbs growing in containers, bringing them indoors will keep them protected during colder months. "Herbs like ...

Mitchell then turned to Plan B – renting a rototiller to till the whole area and planting seeds of three cover crops (crimson clover, tillage radish, and buckwheat). “By early fall ...

Schminke plants a cover crop on 100% of the acres he farms. “We mainly do wheat or rye and we’ve also done hairy vetch, ...

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A team of Penn State agricultural scientists conducted a study on dairy manure management strategies for ecosystem services ...