could any one advise me on the use of green manures, I am going to use mustard for the first time and I would like all the guidance I can get on the , cutting and anything else that is relevent to this form of manuring.

Billit wrote:
could any one advise me on the use of green manures, I am going to use
mustard for the first time and I would like all the guidance I can get
on the , cutting and anything else that is relevent to this form of
manuring.
Try Googling 'green manure'. This is one result....
http://www.rhs.org.uk/Advice/profile...een_manure.asp
HTH
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Pete C
London UK

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:44:46 +0100, Billit
wrote:


could any one advise me on the use of green manures, I am going to use
mustard for the first time and I would like all the guidance I can get
on the , cutting and anything else that is relevent to this form of
manuring.

I used mustard successfully one year. I sowed it quite late, can't
remember when, on an open patch of land. I let it grow to about 9
inches then covered the whole area with black polythene for the
winter. The whole lot had rotted away by Spring, and I had nice
friable soil. I still had bindweed, dandelions etc but a spray of
weedkiller helped with those.
Rye is hard to dig in.
Phacelia has such pretty flowers that I couldn't bear to dig it in!
Legumes are good because they fix nitrogen, but never let them grow
too big.

Pam in Bristol

Pam Moore wrote:

I used mustard successfully one year. I sowed it quite late, can't
remember when, on an open patch of land. I let it grow to about 9
inches then covered the whole area with black polythene for the
winter. The whole lot had rotted away by Spring, and I had nice
friable soil.


Are there any issues regarding crop rotation? Mustard is a member of the
brassica family, so does this mean cabbages etc should not be grown on
the same land for a year where mustard was grown or vice-versa? Is there
a risk of disease propagation in the soil?

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