With cool-season vegetable crops going into the ground, many gardeners who ventured into cover cropping last autumn may ask a familiar question: What do I do now? Their crops have fulfilled their ...

Cover crops are plants specifically grown ... soil health during the winter months. Austrian winter peas establish quickly, providing dense ground cover that protects the soil from erosion and ...

They may shade the ground, thus reducing temperature fluctuation and the weed seed germination ... These tests showed less effect than those where a winter hardy crop was killed chemically in the ...

When it comes to forage and cover crops, winter rye offers rock-star versatility ... Soil stays put – As a ground cover, rye effectively holds soil in place and reduces wind and water erosion.

Due to the relatively mild winter, the spring flood period may not materialize, experts have said. This means that the newly ...

The Otago Regional Council’s annual series of farmer workshops for intensive winter grazing (IWG) to promote good management ...

Discover how biofertiliser can increase maize yields by 3.6t/ha and compensate for reduced nitrogen levels, helping boost your farm's productivity.

If your garden isn’t under snow, you can continue to plant and sow all winter ... crops help improve soil structure and provide organic nitrogen naturally. Lupin and mustard are good cover ...

He would typically be planting spring crops in April ... crop to harvest instead of only using the wheat as a cover crop during the winter months. “On the other side of the scale, I wouldn ...

Ensure that you have inline drip irrigation installed in beds to help counter dry conditions, and get back to watering fruit trees ...