Living mulch functions like mulch on any farm or garden except -- it's alive. No, it's not out of the latest horror movie; living mulch is a system farmers can use to benefit both profits and the soil ...

Growing a permanent clover understory beneath cash crops known as a “living mulch” could provide an effective way to control weeds, fix nitrogen and boost farm productivity. In a field lab trial last ...

Living mulch functions like mulch on any farm or garden except—it's alive. No, it's not out of the latest horror movie; living mulch is a system farmers can use to benefit both profits and the soil.

White clover serves as the premier living mulch system over any other legume. It is robust, resilient and competitive. It produces nice, green walkways and builds soils. It outcompetes weeds, is easy ...

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Q • I have a raised vegetable garden at home and don't use any mulch to cover the soil. I heard that clover naturally takes nitrogen from the air and puts it in the soil, so I was thinking about ...

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Who doesn’t like a two-for-one deal, or a double-double, win-win? A team of USDA scientists in the upper Midwest is working on a double-cropping system that is showing promise as a way to improve a ...

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Maintaining a garden can sometimes feel like a full-time job. Between watering and pulling up pesky weeds, your gardening to-do list probably feels endless. Of course, working in the yard is pretty ...

“The oats stood proud over the clover all winter and those crops grown in the mulch are looking taller, darker and stronger than our farm standard, due to improved nitrogen fixing,” he says. But with ...