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[adyshaw]

Good morning from a cool but sunny North Yorkshire.
New to the site, and finally have a garden that I am allowed to dig up and plant vegetables. Have attempted with limited success to grow veg in troughs before, as the forces took a dim view of me digging up the small garden that came with all my various quarters.
So I now have a nice 320 square foot plot, which has been dug over multiple times, removing plenty of builders rubble and other interesting bits of rubbish, and this weekend a friend is bringing over a large amount of horse muck to dig in, and then with luck, will get some tatties in, before planting a variety of beans/peas to help clean the soil.

Any comments or ideas/thoughts always welcome.

[bearded bloke]

Hello & Welcome

[Two_Sheds]

how do peas clean the soil?



Hello, by the way

[PyreneesPlot]

Hello and welcome from down here, too.

Number one bit of advice is grow what you like to eat... And don't fret if the weather, slugs or whatever win sometimes.

Enjoy.

[Darwin.]

Welcome aboard adyshaw.

I was wondering how peas and beans clean the soil too, I haven't heard of that before. I am a complete novice though so there's a hell of a lot I haven't heard before

[KittyColdNose]

Hello & welcome.

The p's & b's will fix nitrogen into the soil but I don't think they clean it (hope I got that right ).

[bearded bloke]

how do peas clean the soil?

I was wondering how peas and beans clean the soil too

I wonder if that should read ................

will get some tatties in,(before planting a variety of beans/peas) to help clean the soil

or maybe

will get some tatties in to help clean the soil,before planting a variety of beans/peas

[adyshaw]

to be fair its what my folks have recommended I do, and as they are organic gardeners wouldnt think of arguing, lol

[Two_Sheds]

Don't just believe anything you're told though (or we'll be telling you to plant wellies cos they improve your pH)

Ask your folks what the reasoning is?


There is a process called phytoremediation, but you wouldn't eat the plants afterwards, and anyway your ground is unlikely to be so heavily contaminated with anything

[Currysniffa]

Hello adyshaw and welcome to the vine

[Samurailord]

Hi adyshaw, and welcome.

Always query established knowledge because sometimes we do things just because we have always done it that way, and not necessarily because it is the best way.

Andy

[Bren In Pots]

Hello adyshaw and welcome to the vine

[Veggielot]

I was told that planting potatoes was good for a new plot because it helps to break up the soil, although I think that has more to do with the digging than anything else. As for peas and beans I know that they are good for getting nitrogen into the soil but not heard anything else.

They are pretty much what I started planting when I first got my allotment and it gave me a boost seeing something growing relatively quickly so even if they don't improve the soil still a good place to start.

How fresh is the manure you are getting? If it is fresh you will need to be careful where you use it as new plants can be damaged if it is to fresh, or so I have been told.

Oh and welcome

[Glutton4...]

Hello, and welcome to the Madhouse!

[LillyRoseGarden]

Hi, from me!

Peas and beans enrich the soil. For cleaning, if I remember correctly, you plant sunflowers.

"Sunflowers can be used in phytoremediation to extract toxic ingredients from soil, such as lead, arsenic and uranium. They were used to remove caesium-137 and strontium-90 from a nearby pond after the Chernobyl disaster and a similar campaign was mounted in response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster"