What is a green manure? What are the advantages of using a green manure? How to make a green manure fertiliser? I answer these questions in this video plus demonstrate how I make a green manure from ...

Green manures are ideal whenever a patch of land is going to be free of crops for six weeks or more, and they are particularly useful to vegetable gardeners and allotment holders. Although many ...

You can let the plants get quite tall but it’s best to cut them down before they flower, so the energy goes into the soil and not the fruit. Having a green manure crop also avoids the problems ...