Are cover crops and crop rotation beneficial for home gardeners?
Cover crops are used to renew soil health by adding organic matter back to the soil to improve the overall soil structure. (Photos by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)
This week, the Southern Cover Crops Council held its annual conference in Baton Rouge, and I was fortunate to sit in on panel discussions with farmers and specialty crops (vegetables, fruits, nuts and nursery crops) producers. Cover cropping was once a common practice in agricultural history. But by the 1950s in the United States, it was largely abandoned as conventional agriculture relied solely …
