greenmanure

51d

Green manures are growing and the autumn colour is starting in the hedge line. #Autumn #Gardening #Allotment #NoDig #GreenManure

Two growing beds on an allotment are separated by sawdust and wood chip pathways. Some windfall apples lie scattered on the plot next door. A green manure mix on the beds is slowly growing to feed the soil life until all but the rye grass will be killed off by the winter frosts. Low growing white alyssum flowers line the edge of the beds. One bed is partly protected by a black metal fence.

View along a grassed pathway that divides an allotment plot on one side with a trained wild blackberry in need of pruning and a boundary hedge on the other. The common hawthorn in the hedge is yellowing while the guelder rose has already mostly turned red. Other species contained in this hedge are hornbeam, dog rose, field maple, dog wood, lime, wild cherry, wayfaring tree, lime, willow and hazel.

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The raspberry beds have been given a layer of wood chip, the cosmos is still flowering and the green manures are growing nicely. #NoDig #Gardening #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #GreenManure #Mulch

The back third of an allotment plot has two growing beds sown with green manure and two raspberry beds with a wood chip mulch. In the far corner is a blue shed open to the elements with no fitted windows. It is full of allotment paraphernalia that needs sorting out. Compost bays with bamboo canes stacked upright have carrot tubs protected with wire mesh in front. The trees beyond are slowly losing their foliage.

A framed growing bed is covered with wire mesh to keep the worst of the wildlife out. It needs weeding but the field beans inside are just starting to show. A light pink and a darker pink cosmos are flowering on the outside corner of the bed. The rest of the next growing bed is sown to green manures and the last throes of some french marigolds.

A curved growing bed protected with some green chain link fence has green manures growing inside with mustard being the dominant plant. There are broad beans, winter peas, vetch and clovers sown here also. The re are frosts forecast over the next week which will knock back most of this growth to enable the beans and peas to come through.

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