To start preparing for spring, we're now busy planting oats into the vegetable beds. The aim is to grow them as a green manure for the chooks to eat and convert into manure or to be dug straight back into the ground.
The idea behind a green manure is to provide green matter to build the organic levels in the soil. It can also help to clean the soil and is a less intensive crop to give the soil a rest.
Green manuring is an important element of organic farming.
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