The garden becomes a place to have breakfast this week as the weather is warm if a little overcast. The cabbages, kale and broccoli are under attack however. The cabbage white butterfly has become very active. The advantage of having a small garden is I can easily enough inspect the leaf undersides for eggs and [...]
Archive for the ‘Mulching’ Category
10 Aug
AFTER THE HARVEST, MULCHING – SECOND WEEK IN AUGUST 2009
Mulching space where crops have been harvested and cleared. Sowing green manure. As I remove plants following a harvest, for example, of broad beans and peas, I am left with very good bare soil. Nature does not do bare soil, so it is good to cover it with a mulch of grass clippings or even [...]
