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- Field beans – a great green manure
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- Field beans
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- Hungarian grazing rye, one of my favourite green manures as it forms a solid cover & keeps the soil structure together in winter rain
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- Green manure mix with Crimson Clover, Broad Leaf Red Clover and White Tilney Mustard
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- White Tilney Mustard
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- Cardboard mulch – ideally with added compost/organic matter underneath, great option to really keep down the weeds if you’re a busy or lazy gardener and you can plant through it in spring
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- Leaf mould – now this stuff is the business, home made and full of life
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- Let nature do the work – comfrey here dying back that will remineralise and feed the soil
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- Optimise natural leaf litter, like in this bed which is closest to our hazels & pear trees. Provides a nice amount of organic matter with no work at all
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- Chickweed, one of my most favourite herbs, a delicious addition to salads, full of minerals… I pick out larger weeds and let areas of chickweed develop