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Green manure
I have sown green manure this year on my allotment following my
potatoes and peas.I cleared the ground of weeds,forked over the area and sowed one plot in mid July with phacelia and vetch,and the other plot in early August with italian ryegrass and clover. The phacelia is now in flower,and I intend to dig this in in the next couple of weeks. However,although the ryegrass/clover mix is growing well,so are the weeds,some of which are beginning to flower.I had hoped to leave this ryegrass to overwinter,but do not really want the weeds to produce lots of seed,and hence 7 years trouble. I thought that ryegrass was supposed to smother weeds,but that does not seem to be happening.Perhaps I have sown too early.Should I dig in the green manure now,or hope that a frost will come along soon to stop the annual weeds seeding? Michael |
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Green manure
On 21 Sep, 17:38, michael wrote:
I have sown green manure this year on my allotment following my potatoes and peas.I cleared the ground of weeds,forked over the area and sowed one plot in mid July with phacelia and vetch,and the other plot in early August with italian ryegrass and clover. The phacelia is now in flower,and I intend to dig this in in the next couple of weeks. However,although the ryegrass/clover mix is growing well,so are the weeds,some of which are *beginning to flower.I had hoped to leave this ryegrass to overwinter,but do not really want the weeds to produce lots of seed,and hence 7 years trouble. I thought that ryegrass was supposed to smother weeds,but that does not seem to be happening.Perhaps I have sown too early.Should I dig in the green manure now,or hope that a frost will come along soon to stop the annual weeds seeding? Michael I have had the same experience. I've pulled the flower heads off as the appeared. Tedious. |
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