For most of Mississippi, the winning cover crop lineup pairs a fast summer legume like cowpea or sunn hemp with a fall-sown mix of cereal rye, crimson…

Cover crops in Texas don’t follow one calendar. Along the Gulf Coast, winters stay mild enough that legumes and cereals can grow almost year-round with…

The most reliable cover crops for Minnesota are winter cereal rye for overwintering ground cover, an oat-and-field-pea mix for a fast fall cover that…

Cover crops go into Tennessee gardens twice a year: a late-summer or fall sowing that protects and feeds bare beds through winter, and sometimes a…

Cereal rye is the one cover crop that works everywhere in Michigan, from the Upper Peninsula down to the Detroit suburbs.

South Dakota gardeners plant cover crops in two windows: once the spring frost risk fades and the soil itself warms, and again in late summer ahead of…

Massachusetts gardeners have two reliable windows: a fall planting of cereal rye or winter wheat right after the last harvest, and a summer gap filled…

South Carolina gardeners can plant a cool-season cover crop as soon as the summer garden clears out, often by mid-fall, and expect to work it back into…

The best cover crops for Maryland split by season and soil goal: cereal rye for reliable winter-long ground cover, hairy vetch or crimson clover for a…