The Best Cover Crops for Manitoba

The Best Cover Crops for Manitoba

The best cover crops for Manitoba are the ones bred for a 122-day season and a January that averages -6.6°F: fall rye, spring oats, field peas, and…

Cover Crops for Rhode Island Gardens

Cover Crops for Rhode Island Gardens

Cover crops in Rhode Island go into the ground once the soil itself has warmed, not on a fixed calendar date, and that usually means mid-to-late April…

The Best Cover Crops for Maine

The Best Cover Crops for Maine

Maine’s short, cool growing season narrows the field fast. The most reliable cover crops here are winter rye, oats, field peas and buckwheat, chosen by…

Cover Crops for Quebec Gardens

Cover Crops for Quebec Gardens

Cover crops grow reliably in Quebec gardens, but the calendar here runs on a shorter, colder script than most guides assume.

The Best Cover Crops for Louisiana

The Best Cover Crops for Louisiana

Louisiana’s answer depends on splitting the calendar into two very different jobs: a mild, nearly frost-free cool season and a long, brutally hot summer.

The Best Cover Crops for Kentucky

The Best Cover Crops for Kentucky

For most of Kentucky, cereal rye is the safest bet for a full-season cover crop, with crimson clover and hairy vetch as strong legume partners where…

Cover Crops for Pennsylvania Gardens

Cover Crops for Pennsylvania Gardens

Pennsylvania gardeners get two very different windows for cover crops: a spring one that opens once soil temperature catches up to the calendar, and a…

The Best Cover Crops for Kansas

The Best Cover Crops for Kansas

Cereal rye, hairy vetch, and crimson clover top the list for most of Kansas, with oats and daikon radish filling the gap when a fall planting window is…