Using cover crops: a guide to green manures

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Planting cover crops during fallow times helps prevent erosion, adds nutrients to the soil and inhibits weed growth. Popular cover plants include clover, buckwheat, alfalfa and sunflowers. Legumes add nitrogen to the soil. Instructions on how to plant cover crops are included.

Cover crops

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Evaluating your soil: to enrich your garden soil, first determine what it needs

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There are a number of ways to evaluate the quality of garden soil including examining the texture, drainage, number of earthworms and the types of weeds that are growing. Chemical tests also are helpful. Information on improving soil with fertilizers is given.

Analysis, Soils, Soil analysis, Garden fertilizers

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Ideal gardens for the smallholding: a compendium of plans and growing advice for nine specialty gardens from the editors of Country Journal

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Design, planting and maintenance techniques are provided for the following kinds of small gardens: rose; vegetable; serenity; cutting; herb; cottage; rock; ornamental grass; and one-acre market.

Design and construction, Gardens

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