Green Manure

[mysticmog]

Can anyone enlighten me on the topic of green manure - I've heard mustard and comfrey are options, but what I want to know is:

What can be used as green manure?
Is it too late to start planting?

M xx

[mysticmog]

[rdak]

Some excellent information on Gavin's page:

http://www.keirg.freeserve.co.uk/diary/default.html

go to Technique Index and then Green Manures

[mysticmog]

Wow!  Much info!  Fantastic!

Thank you kindly rdak

[tim]

WHAT A FANTASTIC SITE!!

Can I mention it elsewhere - or has this already been done?

It ought to be made required reading = Tim

[gavin]

Memo to Dan

Please, can we have a new smiley?  Required elements - smile, vivid blush, and radiantly pink ears?

Thank you very much, folks.  Two other things I should say

• There are things missed out, or quite totally wrong - it's a project that continues to grow.  Not bad for something that started out as an exercise for a computing course, though.  So when you find something daft, do please let me know.
• And I owe a real debt of gratitude to loads of people who have shared their experience - and a whole lot of people here should also be smiling, blushing, and displaying radiantly pink ears!

All very best - Gavin

[campanula]

gavin, i have bookmarked your page as a fave - fantastic info, much appreciated

[Tenuse]

Mysticmog,

How about [shadow=red,left,300]brambles [/shadow]as a green manure

 ;D

Ten x

[tim]

- please - how do I 'bookmark' 'that page'? = Tim

[Tenuse]

How to bookmark a page:

Go to the page you want to bookmark (by typing in the web address).

Click on "favorites" or "bookmark" - it appears in the grey bar at the top of your browser software - if you are using Explorer, it will say "favorites".

A list will open to the left hand side of your screen. At the top of this list is a button called "Add".

Click on this, and a box pops up showing you what the page you are bookmarking is called. If it's called something confusing, change it to something you understand!

Click on the OK button.

The address of the web page now appears in the list of your favourites on the left hand side of the screen.

In future, to get to the page you have bookmarked, you don't have to type its address in - you can click on the "Favorites" button to open up the list, click once on the link you have added in, and hey presto! you are there.

Hope this helps and is not too full of gobbledygook.

Ten x

[Hyacinth]

Gavin, I've put your site in my fave's too - BRILLIANT! I'll be back to browse it thoroughly over the w/end - and spect I'll be signing your Guestbook too. :) Lishka

[Hugh_Jones]

A most impressive site Gavin. But you haven`t got a jokes section!

[Mrs Ava]

But Hugh, noone could compete with your tutorials and jokes!  I still think Dan should have a humour section, dedicated to you Hugh!  Yes, I am in that fan club!  ;D

[Hugh_Jones]

EJ, what I find surprising is that the tutorial class has only 6 members (who shall remain nameless), so you are an exclusive group.  It`s actually my wife who decides which ones are fit for the open board, and which must be restricted to more private circulation.

[tim]

- thanks, Ten - got it!

And MM, trust you watched the lottie prog on the beeb last night? About green manures? Rhubarb etc?  = Tim

[Garden Manager]

OKAAY folks

Have we got SLIGHTLY  off topic here?

Green manures. Hmm...

Field beans are a good one for over the winter (too late to sow now).  They are a legume, so dont use them before or after a bean crop idealy.  Sown 4 inches apart in rwos 6 -8 inches apart, they shold be sown in mid- late autumn. And be patient, mine took ages to germinate. Trouble was, this year was my first try of a green manure, and not being quite sure what i was doing only sowed a small area, just to test them out. Since they took so long to germinate, by the time they did it was too late to sow anymore.


If you look beyond the traditional green manure crops, there are lots of things that can be used as a green manure.  If it grows during the time its planted, protects the soil, absorbs nutrients and wont mind being dug up when you need the soil for something else it can be used.  If in  the end  all or part of the plant can be dug in or composted so much the better.

Even perennial plants could be used as a long term green manure, with the top growth harvested for composting material.

Hope this helps

Richard

[tim]

-who? - me?

Our radish did the best of 4 = Tim

[Hyacinth]

OKAAY folks

Have we got SLIGHTLY  off topic here?


Richard

Nope! Stick around f & you'll learn that when EJ's around (and Hugh, of course) all topics tend to have a similar theme - the Beeb, this ain't ;D ;D

Did you check out Gavin's site, btw?Comprehensive overview of green manures. Well worth bookmarking - but I think that's been said before?

[tim]

- and talking of 'being off track', Richard, pray why are you posing as Stephan?

To avoid fallout?? = Tim

[Garden Manager]

- and talking of 'being off track', Richard, pray why are you posing as Stephan?

To avoid fallout?? = Tim

Tim!

I AM NOT posing as Stephan!

Why would i and what gives you the idea that I am?   Just because I hav become more confident in sharing my knowledge does not make me someone else.

Richard

[Hyacinth]

Because you're sharing the same avatar, ff, is all..- peace and lurve - Lishka ;)