There is a wonderful product to give your plants a growing boost. It takes time to work—about two to three months—but it doesn’t require too much effort, nor does it cost very much. For a small garden ...

Q: What is the difference between a green manure and composted manure? Answer: A green manure is a plant that is grown to be turned under or left on top of the soil in order to add nutrients to the ...

COURTESY KIMO FRANKLIN A "green" manure plot with Sunn hemp, buckwheat, oats, peas, rye grass and clover plants that are about 6 weeks old. They will be ready to chop down in approximately two weeks.

Before fall descends into winter, we vegetable gardeners have to make a decision: whether to put the vegetable garden to bed with a cover crop of crimson clover (or other green manure) until spring, ...

A principal challenge of cultivating a healthy and productive vegetable garden is maintaining an adequate level of organic matter in the soil. Decomposed organic matter, humus, — not hummus, which is ...

LUXEMBURG (WLUK) -- A Kewaunee County farm shared details Tuesday of its new manure processing facility. Kinnard Farms is working with Sedron Technologies on a treatment plant for treating liquid ...

“If you add green manure or biochar to the soil, you change the microbial activity,” he said. “Nitrogen and phosphorus are good for plants, but there’s too much of a good thing when you apply green ...

Gov. Scott Walker's administration approved plans on Friday for a major new public-private initiative in northeastern Wisconsin to convert manure into energy to help address growing concerns of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two field experiments were conducted on farmers' fields in Northeast Thailand to examine the potential of several green manure and ...