Alan Holmes writes

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Hi,

I'm still new to allotment gardening, and on my travels around the
internet, I came across this:
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/todo...g_gard_now.php
A little before half way down the page, there's a picture of three beds
treated in different ways. It seems that the one which has been
leafmoulded (if that's the word) is doing brilliantly, but the one on
which green manure has been used seems to be doing even worse than the
one left to its own devices. Could that really be the case? If so, why
use green manure?

What is 'green manure'?

Plants that you seed and let grow thickly when you don't want to grow
anything else there, and then dig in to the soil when you want to grow
something else. 'Manure' because you're digging the goodness in the
plants into the soil.
--
Kay