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Green Manure on clay Soil
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Originally posted by bojangles View Postall good for the soil! ... It's a shame I didnt know this when I first started out!!
We put all that plant nutrient in the council bin, then go to the garden centre to buy fertiliser in a bottle. Crazy.All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.
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Originally posted by Two_Sheds View PostYeah it's surprising how people don't think things through to their logical conclusion. Beginners just think "weeds. bad. must bin."
We put all that plant nutrient in the council bin, then go to the garden centre to buy fertiliser in a bottle. Crazy.
We had people throw weeds away with tons of good soil attached. One bit of my plot aquired that lot though.
Someone else piled weeds on to my compost bin, another person asked if they could leave me their weeds. Yes please!
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Hi, I def want to try a green manure this year. I'm just reading one of the links posted in this thread... I just need to know which green manure to plant!! I still have a veg patch full of courgettes, squash, sweetcorn, beans and potatoes. Do I just try to plant the green manure around them? Ground is pretty hard and dry, will the seeds be ok?
I'm a bit worried about some of the green manures spreading around the garden as I've read about them seeding. I'm not the most avid gardner so I'm worried I'll miss the seed heads and they'll beeverywhere! Also worried about the grass type ones spreading via root systems?? Although, on the other hand thegrass ones sound good for me as I have two pet rabbits and would like to beable to feed them from it over the winter.
I;m on the south coast of England, near the sea, anyone recommmend a good green manure?? or I'll see what I find out from this article...
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Planting stuff about now and leaving it over winter is probably ok - things don't tend to flower over winter ... but the idea is you stop the plants before they flower anyway.
We've planted phacelia, mustard and winter tares at the community garden to see how they compare.
You could cover the bed with cardboard in early spring after a couple of sunny days and then the worms will drag all the green material into the soil for you.
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