loamy bed ready for spring planting. It's such a simple solution, but it works wonders! Oats are a wonderful choice for gardeners looking for a cover crop that's gentle on the soil. Native to ...

The spring-planted cover crop mixture included oats at 40 percent, barley at 40 percent and spring peas at 20 percent. That cover crop mixture led to suppressed emergence of 83 percent to 90 ...

Tests with sorghum and oats showed weed suppression. These tests showed less effect than those where a winter hardy crop was killed chemically in the spring. Winter-killed cover crops form a mulch in ...

Especially in organic systems this might be a better option because you don’t have to worry about that spring ... cover crop options suggested by the University of Minnesota include winter rye ...