Have you ever considered using green manure to fertilize your garden and vegetable plots? This eco-friendly and totally organic method helps to maintain the organic matter in your soil, aids soil ...

Green manure provides similar benefits. The Magic Carpet Mix from Fedco Seeds in Maine includes a diverse cover crop of 11 different varieties, mostly clovers but also vetch, radish, chicory and ...

The manure pellets still smell like chicken manure, however. Alfalfa meal pellets are also a good source of plant-based nitrogen, averaging about 5%. Alfalfa contains a natural fatty-acid growth ...

Farmers also learned how to reinvigorate their fields when fallow with another technique known as "green manure." ... Alfalfa, a common livestock feed, is rich in nitrogen because it is a legume.