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    green manure - help me oh grapies

    Hello - and once again this is probably the wrong forum...but am past caring...
    have just realised, yes, on one of my bonkers nightly slug-trawls, that one of my 1x3m beds really is fairly bare in patches and am thinking:
    a)is there any point using a green manure among existing plants?
    b)if so, is there one I can sow in December?
    and c)if so, and please admire the way my questions have a logical progression which I hope will blind you to the fact that this is far too late in the year really to be having such a conversation, and that, given it's 10 past 10 and I have miles to go before I sleep, is this really such a pressing issue in any case...ahem, if so, which one shd I choose?
    oh, btw, we've just acquired a cat. TONIGHT. the first one I've ever had. Terrifying.
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    Our cat acquired us about a year ago, followed me into the house during the snow and decided she was staying-she was half starved and frozen, didnt have the heart to argue, but shes quite good to us really, even lets me share what used to be my favourite chair LOL
    I would think its probably a bit late to sow now,but Ive never tried this late so just a guess really.
    "... discipline is what the world needs today and etiquette, you know. For one of the noblest things a man can do is to do the best he can, yeah ..."

    Prince Far I (1944-1983)

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    • #3
      There's loads of info posted a few months on this, if you want detailed info on the dates I'd have a quick search when you're back on a computer?

      Accordingly to greenmanures.co.uk forage pea can be sown in November, so if it's still mild where you are, you may get germination this month.. but what's stopping the weather turning on us?

      In terms of sowing them between crops, well it'll stop soil errosion and nutrients being washed away over winter, but it'll just provide cover for slugs too - who are lovely the mild, wet weather we're having. Alternatively, if they're becoming a real pest, then try one of various (organic) methods of slug control? Melon peelings, beer traps etc - easy to place between your crops if you're against the use of pellets.

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      • #4
        I sow green manures in between my crops (well, they are self-seeders now and just come up everywhere).
        I don't clear them out until I want to plant, and then I just pull out enough to give those veggies room, leaving the rest of the green manure to fill the gaps.

        I don't think there's any chance of any germinating now - the only thing still coming up on my plot is chickweed, and although that's edible it's a bladdy nuisance
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          thanks all, very helpful...I think it's probably a bonkers idea for now but maybe shd do next year...

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          • #6
            The packet of Grazing Rye seeds I broadcast said could be sewn all year. I put them in about 3 weeks ago and nothing has shown yet so I'll just wait and see what happens. Unless they sprouted and were eaten by something.

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            • #7
              ^ I think it's too dark & cold now, even for rye. It'll come in the spring though
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                think you're right 2Sheds...silly me.
                Hooray for wild strawberries, eh? at least they cover some of it.

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