How to Use green manure in a Sentence

green manure

noun

• Plant a cover crop, also known as green manure.
  — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 20 Feb. 2026
• Annual ryegrass only lives for a season and is often used as a green manure or cover crop in veggie beds.
  — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 18 Aug. 2026
• The best plants, however, to benefit your garden soil are cover crops, also called green manure.
  — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 8 Aug. 2026
• Red clover can make a drought- and shade-tolerant lawn alternative, but it is more often grown as an annual winter cover crop and then tilled into the soil as green manure.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 13 May 2026
• Plants like forage radish, buckwheat, and alfalfa can also serve as cover crops or green manures to improve soil structure and replenish nutrients in gardens after the growing season has ended.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Apr. 2026