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Potting green manures
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Rats, I piled up a good half ton load of readied compost to use, and a sycamore made inroads, and gobbled it all up. That will teach me to pile and forget! I'm not sure how much nutrition it would have sucked out, and if it may have poisoned the soil with inhibitors?
Anyway it has made me think more about planting green manures in bags of dust bowl impoverished dirt. Or even in pots of the stuff. Rather than in situ. Low grade farming.
Where I've just disturbed and turned a load of soil (to remove rubbish). I have got some compost to enrich a 3x3m section. But is it also worth me planting out at all with some kind of green manure, that I perhaps just later leave to die back or cover?
Chalky soil.
Anyway it has made me think more about planting green manures in bags of dust bowl impoverished dirt. Or even in pots of the stuff. Rather than in situ. Low grade farming.
Where I've just disturbed and turned a load of soil (to remove rubbish). I have got some compost to enrich a 3x3m section. But is it also worth me planting out at all with some kind of green manure, that I perhaps just later leave to die back or cover?
Chalky soil.
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