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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Incorporation of cover crop residue into the soil has been suggested as a means for reducing weed seedbanks. To explore this hypothesis, we ...

Organic cropping systems that utilize winter grown cereal–legume cover crop mixtures can increase plant available nitrogen (N) to a subsequent cash crop, but the rate of N release is uncertain due to ...

As gardens go, the patch next to the garage behind Nicholas Keel's 100-year-old house in Government Hill doesn't look particularly lush or productive. But the scattered seedlings that pushed their way ...

The spring of 2019 is continuing the longstanding trend of brilliant botanical reemergence in Leon County. Azalea cultivars, the local and the non-native varieties, loropetalums and others have been ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...