Green manures are ideal whenever a patch of land is going to be free of crops for six weeks or more, and they are particularly useful to vegetable gardeners and allotment holders. Although many ...

What is a green manure? What are the advantages of using a green manure? How to make a green manure fertiliser? I answer these questions in this video plus demonstrate how I make a green manure from ...

When the cover crop fixes nitrogen or otherwise improves soil properties, it is often referred to as a green manure. Both cover crops and green manures can have weed suppressing qualities. They may ...

Researchers at Cornell University are looking at ways to help breed better cover crops, also known as green manures, that could help farmers in their quest to grow crops in the most sustainable way.

In a recent paper in the Canadian Journal of Soil Science (2010) 90: 257-266, they showed that combining phosphate rock (PR) with the green manure crop buckwheat didn’t produce agronomically ...

Whether grown as pulses for grain, as green manure, as pastures or as the tree components of agro-forestry systems, a key value of leguminous crops lies in their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, ...