It might seen an odd thing to film but there are reasons for clearing your Beans and Peas in a particular way as they can still help your garden to be productive after they have finished producing there own crop
Clearing your Bean Bed
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Calcified Seaweed
This is not seaweed but a kind of calcified cold water coral and coralline algaehaving the Latin name of Lithothamnion calcareum.
It is dredged from the sea off the French and English coasts. It has been used by Cornish farmers since before c1650
In Northen France, it is called maerle and is used by Breton garlic, onion and broccoli farmers to improve their crops.
Calcified seaweed consists of about 50% calcium, 5-10% magnesium carbonate and a wide range of beneficial trace elements Zinc, Copper, Sulpher ,Iron,Manganese, Cobalt , Boron, which may be Continue reading Calcified Seaweed
Question: I noticed you mentioned using coffee grounds on the vegetable garden to protect from slugs, is this a legal practice?
I get a lot of questions here at Learn How To Garden from subscribers and viewers. I had an interesting one recently from Aidan that’s very timely . Here’s Aidan’s question:
“Hi Mark,
I notice you mentioned using coffee grounds on the vegetable garden to protect from slugs, is this a legal practice as during a search on the internet I came across this article”
What this question does bring to the forefront is Continue reading Question: I noticed you mentioned using coffee grounds on the vegetable garden to protect from slugs, is this a legal practice?
MAKING PLANT FOOD FOR FREE
One of the easiest savings we can make in our garden is to produce our own liquid feeds. A variety of plants can be used for this and will give us different feeds suitable for doing different tasks. In my film I cover how to make an early season nitrogen rich feed and two ways of making potassium rich feed which is great for bulking up root crops and onions at this time of the season.
The other fantastic free resource we have which we should make more use of is urine this post explains why