When it comes to seeding rates for winter legume cover crops, more seed doesn't necessarily mean much more biomass production and weed suppression. A recent study for specialty crop growers by the ...

It’s difficult to overstate the benefits of a cover crop for your garden. In addition to helping replenish the nitrogen in your soil, cover crops also act as habitat for a healthy garden ecosystem and ...

Before you put your garden to bed, consider giving it a winter blanket—aka, a cover crop. Sowed in the fall, these cold-hardy plants work hard to improve soil throughout winter by decreasing ...

Crown vetch is a perennial legume that spreads by strong fleshy rhizomes (underground root stalks). It has coarse, strongly branched stems 2-6 feet long and an extremely heavy multi-branched root ...

The window to frost-seed opens soon. Adding diversity to a pasture can make it more productive than growing tall fescue alone. Diversity can also aid in reducing or diluting the effects of fescue ...

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Eight herbicide treatments per crop were evaluated for hairy vetch and crimson clover cover-crop control in no-till corn and cotton at two locations in North Carolina. Paraquat alone or combined with ...

"Legume cover crops, such as hairy vetch, have been considered as an alternative or supplement to synthetic nitrogen fertilizers that may improve the sustainability of agricultural systems," said ...

Spring has sprung and gardeners can hardly wait to get their hands in the soil. Got questions before you get started? Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon ...

Researchers tested the effects of vetch residue management strategies incorporating green manure using a roller-crimper and different organic fertilizers on organic zucchini yield and quality. When ...