Growing Green Manures - Part 3, December Update Before The First Frosts

A December update showing how five types of green manure are growing following sowing in September on a UK allotment, including:
- Grazing rye
- A green manure mix containing mustard, cress, and ryegrass
- Red clover
- Phacelia tanacetifolia
- Field beans
This video is part of a series on growing green manures. For earlier videos please see:
- How to sow green manures
• How To Sow Green Manur...
- Update one month after sowing seed
• Growing Green Manures ...
The video is divided into the following chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Grazing rye
01:35 Green manure mix
02:39 Phacelia tanacetifolia
03:16 Red clover
04:10 Field beans
05:41 Update after the first hard frost
For more gardening tips and advice, please see my website:
www.allotmentbook.co.uk/

[@sandyg3772]

I really like the updates. They help me to see what to expect, so I know which green manure to use in which bed/beds.
I have red clover growing all over my pathways and in undeveloped parts of my garden. They've been growing for years, so they get pretty tall now. There's white clover growing underneath it. The bees love the flowers and I am learning how to use the different plant parts medicinally. I've loved clover since I was little, when I learned how to suck the juices out of the flowers.
Again, thank you for the updates.

[@AllotmentBook]

Thank you very much for your comment and sharing your experience with clover!

[@AmirsAllotment]

Just subscribed. Very useful thank you 😊

[@AllotmentBook]

Thank you very much for your comment!

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

Wonderful I have never grown them. Do you weed them?

[@AllotmentBook]

Only at the beginning after germination. I didn't want the weeds flowering before the green manures had a chance to smoother them. Thank you for your comment!