This week's gardening column includes advice on improving your soil with cover crops or coffee grounds and for propagating snake plants.

Barley and oats survive as winter crops, offering strong yields, healthy soils, and good market returns. Follow effective ...

Cover crops are less popular, but often still profitable, plants that are planted in between harvests of a farmer’s main crop to replenish that soil. There’s a wide variety of plants that are grown as ...

BROOKINGS — As a challenging row crop planting season finally wraps up for 2019 in South Dakota, many producers are looking to plant cover crops on unplanted acres to provide forage, control weeds, ...

A panel of farmers discussed their experiences with cover crops and soil health at HPJ Live in Wichita, Kansas, this past ...

Already a national leader for use of cover crops, Indiana wants a fivefold increase in acreage planted in the off-season grains by 2025. If the Hoosier State pulls this off, nearly half the state’s 11 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We investigated the effects of an autumn sowing of contrasting cover crops (oats, rye and a combination of oats and rye) on soil aggregate ...

Opting for a chemical method cover crop destruction and at a later timing are key to getting the most out of cover crops, ...

On a hot, July day in Boone County, Iowa, farmer Brett Heineman shuttled a semi from one of his family’s fields to the local co-op. He and his uncle were harvesting the first crop of oats on this farm ...

NRCS Soil Scientist Dan Nath digs around in a hole in Tony Rossman's field to demonstrate his cover crops' root levels. This idea isn't very attractive for a human, but according to Eric Mousel of the ...

Are you battling with too many weeds in your garden? Is your soil compacted to an extent where it is hard as a rock? Try cover crops this fall to revitalize the garden soil for next year’s growing ...