Living mulches are vegetative covers that can be grown in association with row crops to reduce soil erosion, improve trafficability and suppress weeds. Interference by the living mulch can reduce ...

MASON CITY, Iowa -- University; of Wisconsin agronomist Ken Albrecht and his students started looking at corn production in a kura clover living mulch 10 years ago to control soil erosion. Wisconsin ...

Living mulch functions like mulch on any farm or garden except -- it's alive. No, it's not out of the latest horror movie; living mulch is a system farmers can use to benefit both profits and the soil ...

White clover serves as the premier living mulch system over any other legume. It is robust, resilient and competitive. It produces nice, green walkways and builds soils. It outcompetes weeds, is easy ...

Matt England, estate manager at the Fring Estate in Norfolk, has been exploring the potential of clover living mulches, testing how ground-hugging clovers can accumulate nitrogen and suppress weeds.

Who doesn’t like a two-for-one deal, or a double-double, win-win? A team of USDA scientists in the upper Midwest is working on a double-cropping system that is showing promise as a way to improve a ...

Q • I have a raised vegetable garden at home and don't use any mulch to cover the soil. I heard that clover naturally takes nitrogen from the air and puts it in the soil, so I was thinking about ...

Q: I've been seeing a dark green and almost reddish-colored clover in the yard and now in my flower beds. I'm attaching a photo. I've been trying to pull it out all summer, but it seems to have a ...