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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: courgette on April 03, 2008, 10:54

Title: green manure....
Post by: courgette on April 03, 2008, 10:54

after reading some of johns book i wondered if when growing the green manure (mustard or beans/peas - cant remember which) if you are ok to harvest it or is the whole plant meant to be dug in?

Title: green manure....
Post by: CZ Silhouette on April 03, 2008, 11:04

I think the general idea is to dig it all in.

Heres a link from another post

Quick green manure crop (http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=15228)

Title: green manure....
Post by: noshed on April 03, 2008, 11:34

Last year I grew field beans. The bees like the flowers so much I let them grown on so when it came to dig in I cut the tops off, composted them and dug the roots in.