BY BETTY GREEN
Green Manure Optimise Your Soil This Year
Low-growing green manure like trefoil is excellent for covering the bare ground between rows of tall crops like sweetcorn and avoiding weed growth.
Bird’s-Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)
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Try growing vetch throughout the winter underneath blackcurrant bushes. Then, hoe the vetch off in the spring and leave the foliage to decompose. The blackcurrant bush will take up the extra nitrogen when it needs it most.
Hairy Vetch
