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As gardens go, the patch next to the garage behind Nicholas Keel's 100-year-old house in Government Hill doesn't look particularly lush or productive. But the scattered seedlings that pushed their way ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Incorporation of cover crop residue into the soil has been suggested as a means for reducing weed seedbanks. To explore this hypothesis, we ...