As you pass by farm fields this autumn season, you may wonder why farmers are planting again, even though the harvest has ...

As your vegetable garden winds down for the season, it can be tempting to simply let it rest until spring. But what if you ...

Winter conditions can make soil compact, eroded, or nutrient-poor. Growing this unassuming member of the legume family will help you avoid these gardening woes.

If you want to promote higher populations of beneficial insects, cull your buckwheat crops within 20 days of flowering. If ...

When the Southern Cover Crops Council held its annual conference recently in Baton Rouge, I was fortunate to sit in on panel discussions with farmers and specialty crops (vegetables, fruits, nuts and ...

Put your garden to work over winter by planting a cover crop this fall. Covering the soil with plants that are turned into the soil or smothered and allowed to decompose in spring provides many ...

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 ...

Cover crops are literally a green blanket for the soil. They are fast-growing plants grown in garden/field spaces opened after harvest. Cover crop plants serve to increase nutrients, introduce organic ...

Tender-stemmed dill grows best in cool weather, but can be damaged by frosts and freezes. Cover smaller plants with a ...

Cover crops are extremely important soil food web tools. Anyone listening to the “Teaming With Microbes” podcasts knows I am into them. Depending on which you use, these plants are capable of breaking ...

GOSHEN — Purdue Extension Elkhart County is offering free cover crop seed while supplies last. Small packets have been made up to seed roughly a 100 square foot area (10 feet by 10 feet, for example, ...

Any tomatoes currently on the plant as summer winds down are likely to ripen nicely in the next month or so. Current blossoms, however, may lead to good tomatoes, mealy tasteless tomatoes or none at ...