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Best Practices for Managing Plant Nutrients

Farmbrite

Compost: Compost improves and adds nourishment to the soil. However, it takes time to break these down and it's hard to predict the amount of nutrients available for the crop and when it will become available. Turning : Regularly turn the compost pile to ensure nutrients are evenly distributed and broken down.

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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate

Sustainable Food Trust

By ‘lack of humus’ he is referring to the increasing trend, even then, to dispense with returning organic matter to the soil, for example, in the form of composted farmyard manure, that was made possible by the development of synthetic fertilisers.