IF YOU'VE spare room in your garden for crops that will fill empty spaces and boost your soil, consider plants that can turn into green manure. You may have harvested potatoes and onions, but plant ...

If you're a vegetable grower, this is your last chance to sow a hardy green manure crop on fallow or bare plots. Scatter seeds on moist soil, ideally after rain, and they will germinate and form a ...

‘Green manures are chiefly employed to improve your soil, leaving it in a better place for subsequent crops’ A while back I said I would write about green manures, but then I came to my senses, ...

Phacelia, which can be used as a green manure crop, also attracts beneficial insects tot he garden. Photo / Meg Liptrot A cover crop will inject a good dose of nutrients into your veg patch, writes ...

There is a patch between the house and the veg patch that I’m saving for something special. Vines for a dessert wine, an extension of the forest garden, even lines of saffron crocuses have crossed my ...

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It’s fair to say that the thing that probably preoccupies us the most when we first start to garden is colour. In our mind’s eye dance tantalising images of lofty delphiniums in shades of periwinkle ...

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