" Jeanne Stockdale" wrote in message
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Our main veg patch has and is being very successful - due I am sure to the
amount of manure and compost which has been dug into it over the past
couple
of years.

A couple of months ago we rotavated a strip in our adjoining field to
enable
us to extend our range of veg. Courgettes (which we had grown from seed in
the greenhouse) are doing fine - having been planted with lots of compost.
But the seeds we sowed - broad beans, french beans, carrots and
sweetcorn -
and "thinnings" of cabbages and cauliflowers are not doing so well.

I am sure they need some sort of feed but not sure what. Hubby scattered
chicken manure pellets around but that doesn't seem to have helped.

Any suggestions?

Jeanne Stockdale
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If it was only two months ago that you rotovated the field
grass then the time factor is your problem. At the moment the nutrients are
locked in the rotting grass and even surplus nitrogen will have been taken
to assist the rotting. You should have broken the ground last Autumn and
you would then be getting the fine results expected from new ground.
At the moment, an application of Growmore would be the best remedy~~
expect good crops next year.
If you break turf again you will find that the best method is to
plough. The deep inverted grass soon breaks down~~ but even then two months
would be expecting too much.
Best Wishes Brian.