Every fall after the growing season, I like to put the vegetable garden to bed for the winter with a cover crop of winter rye. Broadly speaking, a cover crop is a crop that covers the soil with a ...

Now is a good time to make sure the soil around roses, berries and perennial beds is free of spent flowers and fallen leaves.

Q. As the days shorten and autumn creeps into our Georgia gardens, I know it’s time to start “putting things to bed” for ...

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A few weeks ago a reader and a friend from the pool who lives near Loudonville asked me if a person could leave his cereal rye in the field this season. I said I’m not sure, but I’ll find out if that ...

cut down the rye to use as mulch for a healthy spring vegetable garden. Another type of legume popularly used as a cover crop to fix nitrogen in the soil, peas (Pisum sativum) typically do not survive ...

QUESTION: Thanks for the advice on annual rye grass for my lawn, it looks great! Next fall I want to go with perennial rye grass. Can you tell me who might sell it? And can I buy common Bermuda seed ...