Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Thank goodness for the rain this week. It has turned drier in the area and who would have thought with the extreme wet spring and early summer of 2019. As ...

Q: I have read about using cover crops to help build up organic matter and to protect the soil in a vegetable garden. What is the best crop to use and when do I plant it? Answer: Using a cover crop to ...

For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for harvest. I prepare the soil for the next year ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not ...

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In addition to diseased plants, you should also pull weeds from your garden as soon as possible to ensure they don’t get the chance to drop seeds and spread. Weeds that haven’t gone to seed are ...

Cover crops are the best way to add organic matter to the soil. You throw out the seed and the plants grow, harvesting what they can from the sun, the air and the rain. Then they return their ...

Question: Every fall I have good intentions of planting cover crops on my vegetable garden beds after harvest. But my tomatoes, winter squash etc. usually are still growing until the end of October.

I was recently asked to look at a new-to-the-owner garden where Indian Paintbrush, a lovely native wildflower, was coming up in sheets. That seemed unlikely, since our native Paintbrushes (Castilleja ...