crop rotation

Cover Crop Spotlight Double Feature: Vetch and Winter Rye! For those of you in Zone 7 or 8 considering a late season cover crop, it's not too late to sow some slightly hardier seeds and establish a nice crop before our harder frosts in a couple months. Cover crops are commonly combined in order to provide synergistic results in the garden. A great example of this is the pairing of Vetch with Winter Rye.  Vetch is a leguminous, vining forage that is used extensively as a green manure crop. As a … [Read more...] about Cover Crop Spotlight | Vetch and Winter Rye