"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ...


My kitchen garden is being foul to dig this year, because it is
badly compacted. It seems that everything that was bare ground
was compacted by the rain nearly as badly as if I had walked on
it. A couple of questions:

Has anyone else encountered this?

What green manure can I sow (late in the year) to reduce this
effect?

I would like something that is dense enough to discourage grass
etc. from growing and setting seed.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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Nick we never have this problem because we cover as much spare/vacant ground
with a thorough dressing of compost. This is taken down by the worms or
whatever and any weeds which do grow are in the soft stuff and pull out
quite easily. Of course you do need lots of compost and to this end we make
a lot ourselves, take in the neighbours trimmings etc and put it through the
shredder and even though my daughter's garden is about 2 + acres, as it is
landscaped, mostly with lawn and flowering beds etc, they don't use much of
their compost heap so we have access to that too ;-) A deep compost mulch
makes gardening so easy.

BUT, as everybody on this forum know, we only have a small garden, but the
deep mulch works.

Mike

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