Hi No-diggers,
I’ve converted a dug allotment (dug by me when I took it on a year ago) to a no-dig plot, by covering all beds in a decent layer of rotted horse manure at the beginning of March. So far the transplanted modules (radish, peas, beetroot, onion, broad beans) are all looking very happy.
I have just planted out about 20 Greyhound cabbage plugs, started indoors and then some time in a cold frame. My plot neighbour saw me and said you shouldn’t plant brassicas in freshly manured beds – and I think I have heard this elsewhere in the past too. The manure seems well-rotted, though definitely clumpy, not like fluffy compost. Obviously it would have been better to mulch the beds in the Autumn, but I wasn’t able to do that. Is there a problem with putting cabbages into recently manured beds, and if so why? Is there anything I can do about this?
Thanks in advance for any advice on this.
B