Cover crops?

My raised beds did horribly this year. I had too much rain, then not enough...vineborers and tomato blight. What's a girl to do? :)

First of all, I completely forgot about crop rotation so I'm sure that's where the tomato problem came in. Easily remedied next year. Vine borers---the bane of my gardening existence. I'll try my best to be on top of them next season.

I have access to all the "seasoned" horse manure a girl could want (from a friend with a horsebarn) so I plan on adding to all my beds, flowers and veggies.

I'm going to pull up all the remaining plant remnants and burn them tonight and I thought maybe I should plant some sort of "green manure". What to plant? Clover?

Some great info sources ...

http://managingwholes.com/new-topsoil.htm
http://www.seedsofchange.com/enewsletter/issue_46/cover_crops.asp
http://rodaleinstitute.org/choosing_the_best_cover_crops (excellent tables to help choose a crop)
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1530/
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/weeds/WeedsToC.html

... and a few vendors with good seed mixes.

http://www.territorialseed.com/prod_detail_list/8
http://www.groworganic.com/browse_seeds.html?sCategory=364
http://www.groworganic.com/cgy_366.html

Excellent! Thank you!

Michelle

My pleasure!