Maybe after you finish your vegetable harvest, you mentally say, “I’m done this year,” and wait to start again next year. But a cover crop could benefit you in several ways. By researching now, you ...

Any tomatoes currently on the plant as summer winds down are likely to ripen nicely in the next month or so. Current blossoms, however, may lead to good tomatoes, mealy tasteless tomatoes or none at ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not ...

With days growing shorter and crisp autumn weather just around the corner, there’s no better time to get started on end-of-summer gardening tasks to prepare your garden for a fall harvest. Even if ...

Right now, it seems like vegetable garden season will go on forever. But we know that eventually the cold weather will show up and put an end to our garden. Since we know it’s going to happen, let’s ...

As summer builds, our gardens burgeon, or they ought to. When they don’t, the culprit is often a lack of water. Productive crops need a reliable supply in order to crop well, especially when warm sun ...

On Saturday, October 4 from 9:30 a.m, to 12:30 p.m., learn how to grow your own compost with soil-building cover crops at a lecture and demonstration workshop. Gardening instructors Orin Martin and ...