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Broadfork

Beautiful low autumnal sunshine at the plot today. The growing beds are all sown with green manures and mulched with compost and ready for whatever winter has in store for it this year.

I had some bark fines compost left over from a job which the client didn’t want so that’s a win, win. I was hoping it would be the case.
#GrowYourOwn #GreenManures #CoverCrops #Gardening #Allotment #SoilHealth #Biodiversity #Flowers #Compost

Plot flowers of the green manures in late autumn. Some white fodder radish, blue comfrey, red spires of callaloo with lots of phacelia foliage underneath.
Growing beds with an almost orange brown sawdust in the footpaths in between. The two middle beds have lots of green manure foliage with the mustard and phacelia most visible. Either side and on the bed nearest there is a fresh, thin layer of bark fines compost. These beds have been sown with field beans on the left and broad beans on the right.
Three beds sown with green manures which are surviving in clumps. These beds have been regularly ravaged by badgers for weeks now. The badgers have been feasting on the plentiful worms. A windrow of compost lies along the right hand side bed.
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Broadfork

The over wintering field beans and broad beans were sown today. The beds inside the fencing will be for harvesting. The other beds are for green manures or may just feed the mice or the muntjac.

The other green manures are doing well, cycling nutrients, feeding the soil biology and improving the soil and water infiltration.
#Gardening #Allotment #NoDig #CoverCrops #SoilHealth #GreenManures #NoBareSoil #RegenerativeAgriculture #Mulch

Five growing beds with leaf amaranths and alyssum snow pathways on the left, broad beans, two beds of mustard, phacelia, rye, vetch, peas and a bed of field beans on the right. The broad bean and field bean beds will have a thin leaf litter mulch added on top. Comfrey patches are growing in the front. Some couch grass is being suppressed underneath layers of sheep wool, cardboard and hessian.
A bed of daisies in front with a caged perennial kale sitting in its own sheep wool cloud, a bed of green manures and a bed of red flowering leaf amaranths with comfrey in front. I can never grow too much comfrey.
Inside a black fence are two beds mulched with dried hay grass. A living pathway of white clover and fresh cut grass is in between the two beds. The bed on the left has just been sown with a double row of broad beans. The bed on the right has just been sown with a triple row of field beans.
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J Mills

This year I tried some new methods, including undersowing with clover. Immediately after planting my main crops, I broadcast medium red clover seed onto the garden beds. This worked really well with wheat / barley. These grasses grew quickly and suppressed the clover until I harvested grains (mid-July). No longer shaded, the clover took off and established a thick stand. The clover will survive until next spring, at which point I will hoe it in. #gardening #CoverCrops #legumes

Wheat / barley plants near harvest time (July). There are clover plants under the wheat / barley
Thick stand of medium red clover. Wheat / barley plants are long gone. Pic taken on 1st of Nov—plants still growing!
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Trevor

For #WorldSoilDay2022, I offer a photo from a field of mine last September.

We harvest silage for livestock in July and under-seed 15 different plant species which keep growing until it snows. The plants feed the soil organisms, sequester carbon, extract nitrogen from the air, and reduce erosion. Many neighbours would till the field and leave the soil exposed until spring.

Picture from the field which shows many green plants growing including hairy vetch, tame oats, phacelia, turnip, and red clover.
#Soil#SoilHealth#Organic
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