Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: sunset on January 26, 2015, 21:39
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Do you only put manure where you plan to put potatoes as i have read, seen some people dig it into every square inch of their plot. :unsure:
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Any where except root crops if there is plenty.
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Add as much as you like, anywhere except for the roots/carrot bed, as it can make the roots fork.
Snap MC !
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Spread over unused beds and allowed to mellow while the worms etc do the work. Handily it keeps the weeds down too :D
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Spread over unused beds and allowed to mellow while the worms etc do the work. Handily it keeps the weeds down too :D
Easier than digging it in, and I just move it aside with a hoe if I want to plant root crops.
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all i would suggest is that you get it down as early as possible to let it work into the soil. last year i dug in manure just before planting and mulched with rabbit manure and found i had an awful lot of foliage growth but not as good of a crop. in fact i found the year before with no organic worked in produced a better crop.
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Sounds as though your soil already had enough nitrogen already in it and the manure added to the its content, hence the excess foliage.
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Sounds as though your soil already had enough nitrogen already in it and the manure added to the its content, hence the excess foliage.
i'm pretty sure it didn't have a great deal of nutrients in it before. it was a new piece of land 2 years ago which had been used as nothing more than a dumping / burning ground for 15 plus years. either way this year i'm leaving manuring to a minimum on my spud bed (only going to work in the mulch that is left from the bassicas last year) and see how it goes.