How to Using Green Manure Crops to Build Soil over Winter in the Vegetable Garden.
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Green Manure Crops
Today we are looking at how to build soil. We grow green manure crops, and in particular a productive one. We use green manure crops in the vegetable garden, it is an organic way of improving or building the soil.
Its a technique that works well with all soils, including sandy and clay soils.
Its an organic and environmentally friendly way of fertilising and improving your soil.
Traditional green manure crops include tic beans and annual lupins, however we are making use of a productive winter crop, its a legume and it works well.. You can of course buy green manure crop seeds in bulk if you wish.
This is our broad bean crop, its been busy fixing nitrogen into the soil, we have picked the beans, eaten some and frozen some. And now we are ready to pull out the plants.
We use these as a green manure crop, and it is simple.
Ideally we would have pulled them out before they flowered, however we wanted the beans as well, so although we will not get as much benefit for the soil, we still get a lot.
We pull the plants out, chop them up with a spade and then dig them back into the soil. At the same time we add a little vermicast from the worm farm and a little compost if we have it.
The technique we use is to remove some of the topsoil, add the chopped broadens and vermicide and then cover that up with the top soil.
Ideally you would wait a month or two for the broad bean stems to break down, however you can plant back into the same patch immediately if you need to.
So we have added lots of material that will decompose and add humus, nitrogen and other nutrients to the soil, and its all for free, we also had a great crop of broad beans.
The traditional way is to sow your Tic beans or annual lupins, let them grow, but but not flower or set seed, let them get around one high, and simply dig them over into the soil at the end of winter. You can try that as well.
Green manure, a cheap and very efficient way of improving your soil.
Its called manure, because as it breaks down, it manures and builds the soil.
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Thank you for sharing❣️I found this video as I need green manure to nitrogen-deficient pot plants🌱
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Thank you for information video. Hi, can I dry the leaves then make powder of it and store or use it for indoor plants. Sunn Hemp Sesbania & Gliricidia leaves. Some of the plants are native to India. I need some organic things . Planning to have pure extract of the leaves for further use. Please update Awaiting Reply
Easiest way is to chop them down with shears, (chop and drop) secateurs or hedge trimmer, dig them straight into the ground , or you can leave as a mulch on surface of soil to break down...
@johnnyAGardening
3 жыл бұрын
Yes that works well...
Nice video, thank you. How often do you grow green manure? I am in upstate NY, so we have cold snowy freezing winters, so I would not be able to grow it in winter as the video suggests. Thank you.
@johnnyAGardening
4 жыл бұрын
You could try in early spring or late summer, really whenever the garden bed is empty. We try for once a year, however in reality, more like once every two years......
Do you pull the broadbean roots out and chop them up too, or leave them in to rot down?
@johnnyAGardening
5 жыл бұрын
Generally pull them out and chop, if they break off, we leave them, they get chopped when we turn over the soil anyway.
@deborahbaker1254
5 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyAGardening thanks. Good video.
Does fenugreek survive over the winter, like broadbeans? 😊
@johnnyAGardening
6 жыл бұрын
Fenugreek needs around 50 - 90 F or 10 to 30 C , it doe not like very wet and cold winters, or frosts. It will always be better from in spring and autumn, unless you live in a warmer climate.
How soon can you plant after turning in your green crop?
@johnnyAGardening
4 жыл бұрын
After digging in wait a week, we dig over again wait another week dig over and then plant. Sometimes we wait two weeks sometimes 3 -4 however we always dig over at least twice after first digging in.
@shadrinaidzni
2 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyAGardening hello, after wait a week, do we need to water the soil everyday or just water it right after digging? thankyou
@johnnyAGardening
2 жыл бұрын
@@shadrinaidzni Just water normally, best kept damp, but not wet and soggy.
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