Yay! We had help today as a couple of friends volunteered to have a ‘green gym’ day down on the allotment. The weather unfortunately was pretty terrible but we braved the downpours in a spirit of dogged enthusiasm. Buddleia was cut back, shrubs tamed (for now), weeds yanked out, Jerusalem Artichokes cut down to size and bare ground covered over. Broadcast a liberal handful of Winter Tares over the ground where the onions were grown this year. It is rather late to be attempting to sow a green manure but we’ll see how it goes…
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Many hands...
Yay! We had help today as a couple of friends volunteered to have a ‘green gym’ day down on the allotment. The weather unfortunately was pretty terrible but we braved the downpours in a spirit of dogged enthusiasm. Buddleia was cut back, shrubs tamed (for now), weeds yanked out, Jerusalem Artichokes cut down to size and bare ground covered over. Broadcast a liberal handful of Winter Tares over the ground where the onions were grown this year. It is rather late to be attempting to sow a green manure but we’ll see how it goes…
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It's not too late - I plants HDRA Field Beans late last October and was rewarded with my first shoots in December and a great crop of nitrogen-fixxing beans this year.
This is the post I first mentioned them in: http://www.wildburro.co.uk/2005/10/27/master-ze-beanz-ze-beanz/
but if you just do a search on the site for field beans, you'll find loads of pictures.
That's good to know!
The seed packet warned they should be sown by August so I wasn't sure if they would still germinate...
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