Although I have some crops in the high tunnel, my outside gardening is done. Today, I got my garlic put in and I planted hairy vetch and rye cover crop in the last section of the garden. Speaking of ...

As your vegetable garden winds down for the season, it can be tempting to simply let it rest until spring. But what if you ...

When it comes to seeding rates for winter legume cover crops, more seed doesn't necessarily mean much more biomass production and weed suppression. A recent study for specialty crop growers by the ...

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 ...

The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is getting plants this month, about 5,000 native plants grown from seed gathered from ...

New research has found cover crops that are viable in Washington's normal "off season" don't hurt the soil and can be sold as ...

It’s difficult to overstate the benefits of a cover crop for your garden. In addition to helping replenish the nitrogen in your soil, cover crops also act as habitat for a healthy garden ecosystem and ...

Becerra-Alvarez’s research began with an oat-crimson clover mixture -- 80 pounds per acre of oat to 40 pounds per acre of ...

The conventional way that gardeners solve bad-soil trouble is by adding organic matter such as compost, leaves, grass clippings, and/or rotted manure – or bypassing in-ground planting altogether with ...

Construction on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is scheduled to wrap up next year. Here's what happens next.