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 gardeners and allotment holders. Although many ...

We were curious about the impact of this standard on Canadian organic vegetable producers. A handful of vegetable producers from coast to coast were interviewed about their green manure use, as green ...

Farmers use cover crops to build and protect soil for the next season. When tilled into the soil, it becomes green manure, ...

How can manure be green? It’s all about what purpose it serves in the garden, which is to add nutrients and improve soil structure. To that end, green manure simply means growing seedlings in an ...

In a recent paper in the Canadian Journal of Soil Science (2010) 90: 257-266, they showed that combining phosphate rock (PR) with the green manure crop buckwheat didn’t produce agronomically ...

Whether grown as pulses for grain, as green manure, as pastures or as the tree components of agro-forestry systems, a key value of leguminous crops lies in their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, ...