If you know your soil is full of all the nutrients you need, find a quick-growing crop to hold the soil in place. Grains, ...

Quick quiz: Which element of nature is most damaging to a Northwest garden? If you said rain, you’d be in good company. In the fall, you can greatly reduce the damage to your vegetable garden’s ...

In addition to diseased plants, you should also pull weeds from your garden as soon as possible to ensure they don’t get the ...

One of the best things you can do for your vegetable garden is to plant a cover crop. Members of the pea family such as peas, clover, vetch or fava beans generally make great cover crops for our area.

In order to improve soil heath and organic matter, vegetable gardeners should aim to have actively growing plants in the garden for 10 or eleven months each year. This is desirable because organisms ...

Gardeners love to try new things, but it’s not often we stumble upon something truly “new.” For me, that happened a few years ago, when I discovered that the shoots from a winter cover crop I was ...

Now's the time to put in a fall crop of peas. They are an excellent choice because they taste great, prefer cool temperatures and fix nitrogen in the soil, readying that spot for spring planting with ...

Is your veggie garden done for the season? There are a couple things you can do; let the garden go fallow, unplanted, cover it up with clear plastic for 6–8 weeks of solarization or plant ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LEEDEY, Okla. (KFOR) — This year’s cover ...

Cattle graze cover crops at the University of Idaho’s Nancy M. Cummings Research, Extension and Education Center near Salmon. (Courtesy John Hall) SALMON, Idaho — Grazing cover crops after grain is ...