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Post by oddsox on Sept 7, 2011 21:42:29 GMT 1
You really are a lovely human being. OMG! I've screwed up really badly, Ali. For some weird reason I thought you were JamDan, who is a lovely human being, so the remark was intended for her! You must get this all the time, newbies mixing up who's who, but sorry anyway!
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Post by Ali on Sept 7, 2011 21:46:27 GMT 1
You really are a lovely human being. OMG! I've screwed up really badly, Ali. For some weird reason I thought you were JamDan, who is a lovely human being, so the remark was intended for her! You must get this all the time, newbies mixing up who's who, but sorry anyway! JamDan is a lovely human being so you haven't screwed up at all OS, you are 100% correct.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 21:54:54 GMT 1
So you don't think Ali is a lovely human being then oddsox? Well don't get upset Ali because I do.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2011 16:34:43 GMT 1
This is also a good time to sow green manures, apparently. I don't know who came up with this crackpot idea but it's supposed to be one of the major planks of organic growing.
So does anyone use them? Can anyone make a convincing case for them?
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Post by Ali on Oct 3, 2011 18:07:06 GMT 1
Hello annon, it's all sown round here and about 5" tall in the fields so I guess best time may have been early Sept after harvest, plough n harrow. I grew some on a veg patch a coupla years ago and it was great for stopping other weeds growing and I rotavated it back into the soil. Theres quite a bit of choice in the bricos and g/centres here for green fert. This year the hens are keeping the weeds away for me, they're on this seasons past tattie patch and a jolly good job they're doing too Still don't think you can beat a good black bit of oss muck.
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Post by troll on Oct 3, 2011 18:33:35 GMT 1
My Breton gardening guru told me not to waste my dosh on 'spensive green manure seed, but to sow cheap avoine . It germinates very quickly under almost any conditions, makes a good "mat" to stop the winter rains washing the nitrients out of the soil, and rots down just as quickly when dug in in the spring.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2011 20:56:54 GMT 1
Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you ali but I had to go and drink some real ale at the local micro-brewery (do you have those in Brittany?) then one thing led to another so I had to drink some more before stopping off at the nearby Italian take-away (do u av those?) for lasagne, olives and garlic bread and meanwhile green manures had gone awol from my mind. But I'm bak on trak now and have to say that it gladdens my heart to learn that you're paying attention to what's going on in the fields around you. Someone once said that we should connect with Nature and move with its rythms and farmers do seems to do that as well as anyone and the least we can do is notice it! Seriousshly though, it's a bit hit and miss to sow seed in late summer, before the Autumn rains, but if you can do it then the green manure crop might just make enough bulk to be useful for enriching the soil. And Troll's account of local practice is pretty convincing, if you've otherwise got bare land which will stay bare for months on end. Phew! It really is a close run thing between drinking real ale at the local micro-brewery and learning about green manures on this forum! Thanks for your replies. Ps. Wot are those funny faces in your messages? ??!!!!
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Post by Ali on Oct 3, 2011 21:23:38 GMT 1
Yes, and the algae covered beaches are paying too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2011 21:29:23 GMT 1
Wot, Ali, u referring to nitrates being washed into water courses? I though that algae thing was down to toxic chemicals used in black plastic manufacture .....!!
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Post by Ali on Oct 3, 2011 21:34:57 GMT 1
Wot, Ali, u referring to nitrates being washed into water courses? I though that algae thing was down to toxic chemicals used in black plastic manufacture .....!! No black plastic manufacturers on the Breton coast.
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