For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for harvest. I prepare the soil for the next year ...

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

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 ...

COLUMBIA — Soil health is now the center of attention when it comes to fighting drought. University of Missouri researcher and local farmer Tim Reinbott has been working with other researchers to find ...

You may still be getting the last of your crops in the ground from this spring’s planting, but it’s not too soon to be thinking about planting cover crops this fall to (quite literally) cover one of ...

AMES, Iowa – As vegetable growers and commodity farmers reach the end of the growing season and harvest their crops, faculty at Iowa State University are pushing for greater awareness of cover crops ...

Cover crops reduced the pigweed density by 58 percent in the early season -- zero to four weeks after crop planting, by 48 percent in the midseason -- five to eight weeks after planting, and by 44 ...

Fall is here! Summer will be missed, but personally, this is my favorite time of the year. I love the cooler days that the changing of the season brings. It's still warm enough to be outside but ...

Planting dry beans into spring cover crops could be a measure to protect young plants from damaging weather conditions like wind or hail. Dry beans are susceptible to damage from wind and other ...

Some of the best mustards to sow in November include the very hardy 'Ruby Streaks', 'Green Wave', and 'Red Giant'. Mustards ...

DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey and Acting State Conservationist Richard Ellsmore with USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service last week said the planting deadline for ...