The land for agricultural uses has been reduced due to rapid urbanisation, dwindling water resources, erosion, salinity and degradation of soil fertility levels. This has led to indiscriminate use of ...

Last autumn, I carefully cultivated a heap of seeds within a new garden bed, only to hack these fledgling plants down to the ground just a few weeks later – and deliberately let them all rot away.

The experiment consisted of a typical high-yield cropping system, with a 150 cm wide strip of both wheat and maize in the intercropping system. For green manure treatment, hairy vetch was sown ...

Bare soil in winter makes me want to cry, but I understand why people do it: a perfectly dug allotment, all neat and tidy, suggests so much. It looks orderly and cared for, and says we're in control.

How to boost your soil with an easy to grow solution. Green manures are ideal whenever a patch of land is going to be free of crops for six weeks or more, and they are particularly useful to vegetable ...

THE growing inadequacy in the supplies of farmyard manure throughout the world has put a premium on the importance of green manuring, and much attention is being paid to the most profitable ...

‘Green manures are chiefly employed to improve your soil, leaving it in a better place for subsequent crops’ A while back I said I would write about green manures, but then I came to my senses, ...

You shift bags of manure or soil improver home from the garden centre and then shift them down the garden. And much of that shifting is done to improve the ground to lay a lawn, make a new border or ...

Green manures are ideal whenever a patch of land is going to be free of crops for six weeks or more, and they are particularly useful to vegetable gardeners and allotment holders. Although many green ...

Your soil will love you for it, wildlife thrives in it and weeds are deterred by it. Here is the what, why and how of green manure Any organic gardener worth his or her salt should be aware of green ...