We dug up the remaining potatoes and prepared a seedbed and over the entire bed, including under the broad beans and peas, we broadcast sowed a green manure mix containing:
- Italian Ryegrass - a fast growing hardy grasing grass which will produce a lot of biomass
- Crimson Clover - a quick growing, vigourous annual which fixes nitrogen and will attracts bees in the spring
- Winter Vetch - a hardy nitrogen fixing forage plant
This combination of green manures is know as the "Landsberger Mix" and is promoted as the ideal overwintering composting crop, producing a lot of organic material, adding nitrogen to the soil and keeping soil and nutrients from washing away with the winter rains, and preparing the soil for next season. The crop will be dug into the soil next spring to compost in place.
The second growth of peas are filling out and we have harvested a very small but tasty crop.
We dug up the remaining potatoes and prepared a seedbed and over the entire bed, including under the broad beans and peas, we broadcast sowed a green manure mix containing:
The second growth of peas are filling out and we have harvested a very small but tasty crop.
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