Many people use cover crops as green manure, covering bare ground and tilling them in before planting the vegetable garden. Fast sprouting and fast growing, most cover crops are annuals.
There is a nice variety of useful cover crops, but my personal favorites are Buckwheat, Crimson Clover, Alfalfa, and Hairy Vetch.
If you have an area available for growing semi-wild plants, a mix of cover-crop plants will feed the bees and other pollinators, as well as looking pretty. If you are short on space, you can even grow Crimson Clover or any of the vetches, such as Hairy Vetch or Purple Vetch, in containers, as I do.
Seeds for common cover crops are sold at farm supply stores and on line.
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| Cover Crops by Marilyn | Oct 12, 2015 6:33 AM | 9 |
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