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 ...

Have you ever considered using green manure to fertilize your garden and vegetable plots? This eco-friendly and totally organic method helps to maintain the organic matter in your soil, aids soil ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

On another plot, instead of red clover the researchers planted a fourth-year crop of alfalfa, which can be used to feed livestock. The animals' manure came back as fertilizer.