Manure & Carrots

[clarelouise4]

You are right snadger about the red wine - seems a cure for all - don't know why the NHS don't prescribe it myself

[clarelouise4]

thanks for the tip about the garlic chives vicki - i grow them at home so i can easily transplant them to the lottie as well.
Good luck with the bindweed - the couch grass is my biggest pain and like you I didn't want to spray but in the end after reading some of the posts about the soil association accepting its use for perennials i bit the bullet and used it on a third of my plot - I'm so glad I did but it was the first and last time of use (I hope!!)

[Amanda1]

Just a further question about manuring, when it says not to sow in recently manured ground, how recent does it mean? If I manure now and then not sow in that area for another 6 months, is that recent? I'm just trying to work out where to manure and where to crop rotate

[Nicos]

Thats good - its just knowing who your greedy feeders are is the problem!

Don't talk about my children like that Jennie!!!

[Nicos]

Just a further question about manuring, when it says not to sow in recently manured ground, how recent does it mean? If I manure now and then not sow in that area for another 6 months, is that recent? I'm just trying to work out where to manure and where to crop rotate

I think within the last 12 months means 'recently' - so last spring would be fine

[nick the grief]

I have read in some books it is best to manure the beds where you are going to grow your brassica's then next year plant the beds with potatoes. Onions also like manure but carrots and parnips do not

I manure for Spuds as they are hungry feeders, follow with Brassica's as they don't like it freshly dug then Carrots last. The onions I tend to grow in one area but keep it really clean.