How to Use cover crop in a Sentence

cover crop

noun

• Plant a cover crop in the empty beds.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2025
• Some share costs, such as for the purchase of cover crop seed.
  — Meg Wilcox, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2021
• Plant them after legumes or cover crops.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2026
• The areas with high cover crop — prime food for fire — fared much worse.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• Follow with a cover crop or a layer of mulch or both.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2025
• Cut cover crop plants at the base so roots decompose in place.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
• Plant this year’s tomato bed with a green manure or cover crop.
  — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Plant a cover crop, also known as green manure.
  — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 20 Feb. 2026
• Plant winter cover crops that help prevent weeds.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
• 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
• For home gardeners, this can be achieved by using cover crops or mulch.
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
• Planting a cover crop around the tree will help the soil retain moisture.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026
• But some farmers grow over-winter cover crops to improve soil health.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024
• Then after that will add more leaf mulch, fungi and a final green cover crop in the fall.
  — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2023
• When spring comes, the cover crop can be tilled back into the soil to add nutrients.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
• In vegetable beds, sow fava beans, peas, mustard, vetch or a mix of cover crop seeds.
  — Alice Cason, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
• Replant those areas with warm-season crops or cover crops.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2026
• Plant these crops after legumes or non-brassica cover crops.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• If your garden soil has poor drainage and often is overly wet, a fall planting of cover crops may help.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Just over 90 percent of cropland in the state still goes without cover crops.
  — Emily Hopkins, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
• The ground is barely tilled and instead carpeted with cover crops.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
• Second, cover crops add nutrients to the soil and improve tilths.
  — Roxanne Washington, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2019