Hi everyone, hope you're all enjoying the rain at last!
I need some advice re interplanting brussels sprouts. I've got about six plants just starting to stand up and grow but all the bare space inbetween seems a bit of a waste. I've heard some people grow lettuce or other catch crops inbetween before the sprouts get too big but I was wondering if it would be harmful to sow a winter green manure between them and leave it untill the spring? Has anyone tried it? ???
Mubgrub, at the moment I have brassicas in between my potatoes! That's if they ever get out of the ground far enough!! ( I am a late starter!)
Apparently, (according to Flowerdew) brassicas are good grown with:
beetroot & chards
celery, dill & nasturtiums
onions & garlic
peas & spuds
I suppose it depends if you are pushed for space, but it would seem the above indicated beneficial properties, though don't know what!
I planted my sprouts in between my strawberry plants!
I have no idea whether the green manure thing would work, don't see why not, however, they will be competing for the goodness and water in the soil.....wouldn't they? I use lettuce and radish as interplanted crops, and they work a treat!
Red Clover overwinters and while it is growing will be fixing nitrogen in the soil which the brussels should love so this might be a good idea.
Genius, why didn't I think of that?
What happens in spring, do you dig it in, or pull it out and put it on the compost heap? :-\
Dig it in.
I think my soil is a bit heavy for clovers... would field beans be ok?