[argonaut]

After potatoes came out this year, dug in a load of compost and then sowed a green manure crop.
This is now about 300mm (12") high ..

What is best approach ... thought I would simply try and dig it in with a spade turning it over so all the crop is buried under the soil ... then leave for a couple of weeks - then run tiller over the lot.  ?


Edit: I've deleted your duplicate topic Argonaut (for future reference you could have corrected the subject typos yourself using the 'modify' button.)

[Steveharford]

I've grown mustard and will let it sit there until the spring when i will strim it off then rotovate it in.

[Kristen]

What is best approach ... thought I would simply try and dig it in with a spade turning it over so all the crop is buried under the soil ... then leave for a couple of weeks - then run tiller over the lot.  ?

Generally, yes, but depends a bit on the type of Green Manure you sowed - for some it will be important to incorporate before they set seed.

Either way, it is better not to incorporate until just before sowing/planting the next crop (unless the setting-seed thing catches up on you) so that the green manure is bury doing its job, locking up nutrients, preventing rain from washing them out etc. so in general don't incorporate it until it comes time for the next crop

[argonaut]

What is best approach ... thought I would simply try and dig it in with a spade turning it over so all the crop is buried under the soil ... then leave for a couple of weeks - then run tiller over the lot.  ?

Generally, yes, but depends a bit ....

It's Caliente mustard.
Not seeded yet  ... and have onions & shallots ready to go in