Growing your own vegetables is rewarding and a great way to provide your family with fresh produce. Thanks to our mild Florida winters, backyard gardens can be productive all year long. Sustaining all ...

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How to boost your soil with an easy to grow solution. Green manures are ideal whenever a patch of land is going to be free of crops for six weeks or more, and they are particularly useful to vegetable ...

Here’s how cool-season green manures help Indian farmers enrich soil, protect fields after harvest, and prepare for stronger ...

COURTESY KIMO FRANKLIN A "green" manure plot with Sunn hemp, buckwheat, oats, peas, rye grass and clover plants that are about 6 weeks old. They will be ready to chop down in approximately two weeks.

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The tradition of farming the land in northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley had been passed down from Don Bustos' Spanish ancestors who tilled the same soil centuries before. But when Bustos realized ...

If you are not planning a winter garden this year, or have some barren vegetable beds, you can utilize this season to amend and build your soil by turning in extra amounts of organic matter and ...

IF YOU'VE spare room in your garden for crops that will fill empty spaces and boost your soil, consider plants that can turn into green manure. You may have harvested potatoes and onions, but plant ...