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Cover Crops! Keep your garden beds healthy over winter with plants that give back to the soil. Slow growing, cold-hardy plants will prevent erosion, offer habitat for overwintering beneficial insects, fix nitrogen in the soil, and provide masses of organic matter that can be tilled under in spring. Left in the ground, they provide a mulch against spring weed seeds. Because of these benefits, cover crops have been used for thousands of years. Most cover crops can be planted right into the fall. Using cover crops to feed the soil is one of the basic principles of organic growing.

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