Autumn Sowing At Spofforth

Diana and I did a little autumn sowing today, funny time of year to be doing that sort of thing you may think but there is method in our madness. We were sowing green manures onto the raised beds, this has the triple benefit of suppressing weeds, covering the soil and preventing the nutrients from being leached out over winter, and then adding goodness and improving the soil structure when you dig it in come spring. I've not used it before myself so I will be very interested to see if Diana's crops improve next year because of it. As soon as it germinates we will remove the netting protecting the seed from hungry birds and wait for it to do its stuff, more pictures as things progress. By the way don't be fooled by the pretty flowers pictured on the seed packets, you dig it in before flowering, if you let it set seed you'll never get rid of it!

"Let us permit Nature to take her own way. She better understands her own affairs than we.
Michel de Montaigne