How to Use cover crop in a Sentence

cover crop

noun

• Plantations that make use of cover crops, like green beans and peanuts planted between the rows of agave, almost always have lower rates of disease.
  — Chantal Martineau, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2015
• Choose the cover crop — like legumes, clover, etc. — to meet the soil’s needs.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
• Some share costs, such as for the purchase of cover crop seed.
  — Meg Wilcox, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2021
• No gas vehicles — sheep trim the cover crop in the spring.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
• The cover crop had been mowed, for one thing, so there wasn’t much brush between the vine rows to catch fire.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
• The areas with high cover crop — prime food for fire — fared much worse.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• There’s the crawling vines of the beans, the cover crop of the squash grown below, and the shade being produced by the cornstalks.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
• Scully, 57, works with her husband and one of their sons to raise corn, soy and hay as a cover crop.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 May 2023
• Cut cover crop plants at the base so roots decompose in place.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
• The cover crop can be a winter-hardy grain, a legume or a combination of the two.
  — oregonlive.com, 13 July 2019
• Here is a resource on cover crops for gardens west of the Cascades.
  — oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023
• Then after that will add more leaf mulch, fungi and a final green cover crop in the fall.
  — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2023
• Buy seeds for cover crops to plant in your vegetable garden next month.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
• Next, some folks have planted a fall cover crop to improve soil.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 Sep. 2017
• One thing Wing envisions is helping harvest the cover crops from the field over the next two years and use them in recipes.
  — Kelsey Ryan, kansascity, 10 May 2018
• Just over 90 percent of cropland in the state still goes without cover crops.
  — Emily Hopkins, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
• Plant this year’s tomato bed with a green manure or cover crop.
  — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2021
• Chop down the cover crop into small pieces and work into the soil three to six weeks before planting.
  — Dan Vierria, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• This will supply some attractive greens and also act as a cover crop through to the next spring.
  — Adam Lewis, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023
• Farmers plant cover crops; athletes cross-train; actors—even the most A-list—brand.
  — Sheila Marikar, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2020
• Bible manages 3,000 acres across his farms near Lafayette, on which he plants cover crops or practices no-tillage.
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2017
• For soil health enhancement, whether to use cover crops.
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• But there's no one driving the electric tractor, which mows the cover crop between vine rows.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 2022
• For the past 10 years, he's been planting about half of those acres with cover crops in between growing seasons.
  — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2019
• Farmers around the world plant red clover in their fields, using it as a cover crop to help improve soil health and as food for livestock.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
• This year the family planted it all with corn for their cattle, along with a cover crop of rye and other grains.
  — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 25 May 2021
• Dee uses a mixture of plants such as radishes, turnips, clover, winter peas and oats as cover crops for her 4,000 acres of row crops.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 1 Dec. 2019
• Second, cover crops add nutrients to the soil and improve tilths.
  — Roxanne Washington, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2019
• For home gardeners, this can be achieved by using cover crops or mulch.
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
• Keeping part of the garden in a summer cover crop can help reduce weed problems for the next season.
  — oregonlive.com, 13 July 2019

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024