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Definition of Green manure
1. Noun. A growing crop that is plowed under to enrich soil.
Definition of Green manure
1. Noun. A crop that is ploughed into the soil to improve its fertility ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Manure
Literary usage of Green manure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"green manure in Vineyards. Slow Action of green manure. Green Manuring is rarely
practised ... Clover as green manure. Grain Grown after Green Manuring. ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"Harrow, disk, use with green-manure crop 11,12 Horse beans. See Beans, horse.
Indian melilot. See Melilot, Indian. Inoculation, use in green manuring 14-15 ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"green manure Crops.— The most important method of maintaining the soil's fertility
is by the use of green manure crops, such as clover, cowpeas, ..."
4. Elements of Agriculture by George Frederick Warren (1920)
"GREEN-MANURE 146. Crops are sometimes grown for tLe purpose of plowing under as
green-manure. Rye, buckwheat, cow- peas, crimson clover, are frequently ..."
5. Farm Management: A Text-book for Student, Investigator, and Investor by Richard Laban Adams (1921)
"GREEN MANURING Definition of green manure Crops.—green manure crops are crops
grown on the land and turned under green, or even dead, for the purpose of ..."
6. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1861)
"green manure, as such, is not much more the food of plants than a raw potato
would be for man. The valuable properties of manure are brought out by ..."
7. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"Rye as green manure—On account of its hardiness and its ability to grow upon poor
soil, rye makes a good crop to grow for plowing under to increase the ..."
8. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"... haps it might serve with allied plants for green manure. The bulky foliage
has proved valuable for fodder, and so has that of Lavatera plebeja (Sims). ..."
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