Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Thank goodness for the rain this week. It has turned drier in the area and who would have thought with the extreme wet spring and early summer of 2019. As ...

Q: I have read about using cover crops to help build up organic matter and to protect the soil in a vegetable garden. What is the best crop to use and when do I plant it? Answer: Using a cover crop to ...

As we count our blessings during the lead-up to Thanksgiving, cover crops are something that should be on every agricultural producer’s and consumer’s list. Here are a few of the reasons why. This is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

Fall is here and we’re still gardening. You may have questions. To ask one, simply go to the OSU Extension website, type it in and include the county where you live. A photo is very helpful. Q: We ...

BROWNSDALE, Minn. — Look over in that soybean field, Bruce Barnum said, gesturing to the field on the west side of the gravel road where soybeans are ripening in the afternoon sun. There used to be a ...

With summer over, many of us are putting our garden beds to sleep until spring. But if you’re leaving your beds bare, you are missing out on an opportunity to improve your soil and give your garden a ...

Question: Every fall I have good intentions of planting cover crops on my vegetable garden beds after harvest. But my tomatoes, winter squash etc. usually are still growing until the end of October.

It was at the end of the growing season. I had just created terraces behind my home. It was too late for a fall garden. I asked Ray Ridlen, the County Extension Educator and Master Gardener advisor at ...

Before you put your garden to bed, consider giving it a winter blanket—aka, a cover crop. Sowed in the fall, these cold-hardy plants work hard to improve soil throughout winter by decreasing ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Farmers using cover crops as a soil conservation method can remove much more corn stover per acre for biofuels or other uses and at the same time potentially increase their ...