Cover crops for gardens – and my wife, the cover cropping queen!

By Dave, on October 5th, 2011%
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My wife Sally must love me…or at least she is observant to see how cover crops are improving the soil in our family gardens.  Over the nearly 19 years we have lived in our home we have had a garden where we often have raised vegetables for the Hispanic families that we minister to.  A few . . . → Read More: Cover crops for gardens – and my wife, the cover cropping queen!

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Medium Red Clover as a cover crop

By Dave, on March 3rd, 2011%

Medium Red Clover frost seeded into wheat provides good nitrogen production and excellent forage/green manure.

Frost seeding clover into wheat has been a standard practice for many years.  Many producers have used “60/40 Plowdown Clover” in their wheat…but in many areas that practice has stopped as double crop soybean plantings have pushed further into northern Ohio, . . . → Read More: Medium Red Clover as a cover crop

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