Red clover can make a drought- and shade-tolerant lawn alternative, but it is more often grown as an annual winter cover crop and then tilled into the soil as green manure.

Most cover crops need to be tilled into the soil to be used as green manure. However, there are some no-till cover crops to choose from. Below are six excellent choices of cover crops to plant ...

Clover serves as green manure that amends soil by fixing nitrogen. A clover’s three ... Red clover, however, is better suited to yearlong growth and forage rotation. Clover also serves as feed for ...

Although red clover is a popular option, it can be disease prone when grown too often, so ideally a five-year break should be left between crops. Therefore, growers should look at other species, too.

Clover is a green manure that can be left to grow for a year - when it flowers it attracts bees and other pollinating insects. Top. What to do.

Our field, until a farmer cut it recently, was dotted with red clover, Trifolium pratense.In addition to being a good insectary crop and green manure, red clover is used for forage and silage.

A Quebec vegetable farmer seeds red clover or alfalfa each year on a third of his land and these are grown for two ... In the fourth year, he goes back to garlic. When he uses clover as a green manure ...

Green manures are a vital component in organic soil fertility and, with high fertiliser prices, it could be time for conventional farmers to reconsider their grass rotation. Speaking at a recent ...

Green manure crops could fill empty space on allotments and boost harvests, Hannah Stephenson reports.