Have you ever considered using green manure to fertilize your garden and vegetable plots? This eco-friendly and totally organic method helps to maintain the organic matter in your soil ...

With perennial crops such as tea, the success of rotation of non-leguminous crops with nitrogen fixing legumes cannot be practiced. Hence, the extensive use of green manure with the most judicious use ...

It's called "green manure" and it's an easy way to build excellent soil for your veggies or fruit trees, at a very low cost. Green manures don't actually involve any animal manure at all.

COURTESY KIMO FRANKLIN A "green" manure plot with Sunn hemp, buckwheat, oats, peas, rye grass and clover plants that are about 6 weeks old. They will be ready to chop down in approximately two weeks.

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 ...

Green Manure crops literally extract some of the nutrients from the winter soil and store that in the stems (cells) and in the roots of the plant; Some green manure crops (the Legumes ...

Green manures are fast growing plants which are sown to cover bare soil. They are often planted in the autumn to cover areas of soil that would be filled with vegetable plants in the summer.

The UP government will continue to provide 30,000 quintals of dhaincha seeds, a kind of green manure, to the farmers on 50 percent subsidy in the upcoming Kharif season, a state government ...

The initiative, which encourages a reduction in the use of chemical fertilisers, has seen green manure seeds raised in about 5,630 acres, ready to act as bio-fertiliser for samba paddy.