GREATsoils Short term green manure strategies for intensive growers
This webinar covers the practicalities of using short term (or catch crop) green manures in intensive horticultural rotations; which species of green manures can be used; when in the rotation to sow and incorporate the green manure, and which crops are most suited to preceding or following short term green manures.
Hosted by Ian Wilkinson, Managing Director of Cotswold Seeds, the webinar is primarily aimed at fruit and vegetable growers but is open to anyone interested in improving soil health.
The GREATsoils programme, funded by AHDB Horticulture, is led by the Soil Association in collaboration with Earthcare Technical Ltd and the Organic Research Centre. The overall aim of the three-year project is to inspire and support fruit and vegetable growers to develop the ability and confidence to assess the health of their soils and take practical action to improve their soil management strategies.
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Useful even for the tiny gardener like me - i have just planted onions in rye maybe a mistake but an experiment! I am not rotating - i am a permaculture gardener in France - so i am using the manures to make up for this.
Very good information for farmers for why a multi-species cover crop is more beneficial over single cover crop. For those who cannot have a livestock on the farm to incorporate animal manure can try spraying jeevamrutha or panchagavya (liquid manure made from cow dung etc) on land after tilling in the cover crops.
Very, very interesting video... thanks..By
Excellent video. Some really interesting points. I think if we consider how plants aquire nutrients, it makes sense to have many different types of plant roots in the soil. More plant roots equals more CO2 both from plant and related diverse biomes via respiration..when CO2 combines with water, it creates a weak acid which can mobilise many of these Minerals which are degraded today in our food. The effects of diversity seems to me at least to offer us the potential to always have someone working and so producing this mobilisation/ nutrient cycling task. We all have times and conditions which suit one or other of us more at any one time. Ergo the more diverse the planting, the more likely we might reach a state of always on nutrient cycling that can keep pace with our growing needs
@haansss263
2 жыл бұрын
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has anyone studied green manure, mixed leys for equestrian pastures where the needs of the animal are different from short lived livestock?
very informative advise,why so few views.soil improvement is a must by green manure cover crops rather thn harmful artificial frtilizerswhich destroy micro bacteria and other living soil organisms.
@PickledPoacher
6 жыл бұрын
jp there is very little evidence to support synthetic nutrients destroying bacteria. There is plenty to suggest it burns Carbon and it's this that leads to a breakdown in system fertility. There is data suggesting we alter the biome where we deliver an input. For example, compost favours a different set of biology than say Green Manure, Cow Manure, Chitin, Kelp, or even synthetic manures. It is true to say organic systems increase diversity of soil fauna but it's not right or accurate to keep saying pure synthetic Nitrogen kills microbes.
Are we sure about the no fixing below 8 deg C ? I ask because I plant winter Tares in Sept and terminate in February and whenever I check there is loads of nodules.
What do you think of soybean as a green manure? It dies in the winter, ready for spring planting.
Did you really have to put Charles Darwin in the conversation ?
@chalkyness
4 жыл бұрын
Why shouldn’t he? Darwin made great use of examples of farmers and breeders practicing deliberate selection to introduce the idea of natural selection.