Green manure

Ages since we've written. Most weekends we have been out scavenging bits of steel, iron and wire to make up a new section for the garden. We've rapidly outgrown the shadehouse and need much more space for our vegetable dreaming.

This weekend just past we completed the bed with good fencing around it to stop the dogs getting in and digging into the sweet smelling manure. It is hard to stop the feeling that you want to plant as much as you can straight away but we've decided to grow a green manure crop. The soils here are so poor that you need to be able to get as much organic material into it as you can.

So we've sown barrel medic as well as an assortment of beans and pulses that have been sitting around in big sacks for the last 12 months.

In about 6 to 7 weeks time we should be able to dig it all into the soil and then plant all those seeds I have been accumulating and dreaming about. Beetroot, peas, broccoli .....

Susan
22 May 2007