Reply To: Green Manure

[charles]

Yes its a great discussion and thanks to Pete starting it. I notice how green manures provoke some lively comments on my courses. Farmers are looking at ways to stop their cover crops growing, by bruising them, (to save both money and soil life/structure) then they leave the debris on top, or lightly till it in – but I think many of them use slug pellets. In a garden we can remove the top growth to compost, if we want to.