What is a green manure? What are the advantages of using a green manure? How to make a green manure fertiliser? I answer ...

Long before the advent of synthetic plant foods, farmers had only two ways to make their fields more fertile. One method was to spread manure from livestock, which proved a labor-intensive method that ...

FORT HALL, Idaho (AP) - Potato farmers in southeastern Idaho got a look at a possible weapon to fight weeds, insects and erosion: oriental mustard-seed plants. That plant and others were on display ...

You won't find a pile of green manure beside a farmer's barn or under a neighbor's rabbit hutch. It's not an animal product. The term refers to fresh vegetable matter that is grown to be tilled into ...

Let's take a moment to talk about green manure ... Stop! Come back! It's not what you think. For one, it has nothing to do with sick cows. Rather, green manure is simply a cover crop that is tilled ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Most of you have heard manures are good for the garden. Today let's have a bit of fun seeing what else you know about them with this true-or-false quiz. The answers follow; cover them while you're ...