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- Angel Flinn
- February 3, 2011
- 1:08 pm
- 28 comments
Keeping your gardens covered with green manure crops is an excellent way to keep your soil healthy in between growing seasons, as it helps to control the weeds and protects the soil. Sun and heavy rains can compact the soil and leach out beneficial nutrients. When green manure crops are dug in to the garden, they add organic matter, nitrogen, and minerals that are brought up by the roots.
When choosing the best type of cover crop for your situation, you need to consider your climate, soil type, the duration needed and whether you want a nitrogen-fixing crop or a crop that produces a lot of organic matter to dig back into the soil.
Next: Which crop to choose?
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Read more: Conscious Consumer, Food, Lawns & Gardens, Nature, Vegan, barley, buckwheat, cover crops, green manure crops, marigold, nitrogen-fixing plants, organic, rye
Angel Flinn
Angel Flinn is Director of Outreach for Gentle World – a non-profit educational organization whose core purpose is to help build a more peaceful society, by educating the public about the reasons for being vegan, the benefits of vegan living, and how to go about making the transition.
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28 comments
+ add your ownThere are millions of ways to make the cycle of life more whole. While feeding sunflowers to the birds, I noticed squirrels wanted some too. The benefit of feeding the squirrels is that if you give them a nice sunflower, they leave a nice fertilizer. No wonder the Roses in that section are doing quite well. Nitrogen without harmful effects...Manure, it's a good thing.
Love green manures! Also liquid weed teas!
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noted and thanx
love hairy vetch. pink and purple, tiny, tubular flowers that hummingbirds love.
Every day i learn something new is a good day. Thanks for making my day :-)
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I think I like the idea of planting marigolds all over my garden so pretty.
It's not really necessary to dig them in. They will break down on top of the soil and still provide organic matter. Saves an awful lot of hard work!
we have crimsom clover on our community garden beds this year, am excited to see how it works out
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