Hi All,
I have always struggled with the Green Manure theory but now that I’m following Charles’s no-dig strategy I fail to see the need for it at all.
If you sow a Green Manure and then remove it to the compost bin are you not just doing the very thing your trying not to do, i.e. remove nutrients from the soil, and therefore you must top dress with Compost anyway.
If you dig it in are you not going against the basic no-dig principle of trying not to disturb the soil structure. Also if you dig it in won’t nitrogen be used up in decomposing it?
Why not just top dress with compost in the first place?
Don.