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As you make your field plans for this year, consider complementing your later-planted vegetable crops
with an early spring cover crop. In fields where you plan to grow a vegetable with a summer planting
schedule, like transplanted broccoli...
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Fall cover crop planting is right around the corner, and this blog post is full of resources to help you with species selection, seeding rate, and seeding methods.
Choosing a cover crop
The first step to choosing a cover crop for...
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One significant challenge for gardeners who use organic practices is to provide enough nitrogen to meet vegetable needs without over-applying phosphorus. Last year, we shared our findings that most home gardens are over-fertilized; the...
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One of the most common reasons for not using cover crops is that as the growing season progresses and people become busy, planting cover crops end up at the end of the to-do list each week. By scheduling cover crops into your rotation...
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Strawberry plants covered in leaves for the winter
Temperatures have been slightly above average for much of the fall, but it is finally time to cover your strawberries for winter.
Before snow covers the ground, cover your strawberry...
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For all the gardeners who are music lovers: 'Beatlemania' spring sedge or mop-headed sedge.
“Ground cover” can mean several things. It can be a type of mulch, hardscape materials like patio block, or a growing plant. Ground covers can...
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