Green manures help improve soil health at any time of the year. Typically the process involves planting quick-growing legumes and grains that are dug back into the soil to add nutrients and ...

Winter is here and it is a good time of year to reflect on your past year of gardening and plan for the next year.

In a recent paper in the Canadian Journal of Soil Science (2010) 90: 257-266, they showed that combining phosphate rock (PR) with the green manure crop buckwheat didn’t produce agronomically ...