Green Manure

[Weed]

My field beans have shot up so much so that the first plantings are about eighteen inches tall...

I reckon they might suffer from the impending frosts that I believe are due during the middle of this week.

I didn't anticipate such a mild October...my tomatoes are still producing and ripening well so are the peppers.

[Colin_M]

Hi Weed, yes I guess it's another by product of the warm autumn.

I cut the top 6 inches of my early Field Beans, but a second sowing is only 6 inches high so I hope will fare better.

Colin

[mandylew]

I planted red clover over a month ago and there is no sign of it, the odd clover plant i'm sure is just one that was already there, will have to try field beans next year!

mandy

[Mike Vogel]

I also have had remarkably poor germination of green manures sown in September. this year it has been winter tares, which have now germinated in isolated bits and pieces. Last year the clover i sowed late didn't appear at all, but the seeds overwintered and came up in the spring. It seems to me that the tares have to be sown in august or else the following spring; that was when i got my best results with them, sowing them where I intended to put overwintering brassicas afterwards.
mike

[Monika]

Our winter tares at home are growing well but much of the Hungarian grazing rye seed on the allotment were eaten by partridges and pheasants - should have netted the whole bed (as I would do for vegetables). Finished the allotment winter digging this morning, it can all sit and rest now.