Green manure
Winter break Green manures
The days are getting shorter, the pumpkins are harvested, winter is coming soon. It is time to curl up in a warm blanket, but don’t forget to cover your land also. This mixture covers and roots into the ground until spring. It makes beautiful, crumbly soil for the next growing season. Contains rye, winter pea, camelina, and hairy vetch.
Finely till the soil in September and broadcast before October. Lightly rake and pack the soil.
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Sabbatical Green manures
This annual green manure mixture covers fallow land from May until the end of the year. The whole while it serves as bee meadow for honeybees and enriches the soil. It dies back at the end of the year. It is ideal for depleted, tired soils and gardens that have not been managed for extended periods of time. Contains flax, calendula, cilantro, clover, buckwheat, and various flowers.
Prepare ground by finely tilling the soil. At the end of April to June broadcast into the field. Lightly rake and pack soil. Height reaches 150 cm.
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Summer break Green manures
The peas, lettuce, and spring vegetables have all been harvested and now summer holidays are coming. Let us also give our garden a break with this revitalizing green manure. This nitrogen-enriching mix has phacelia, clover, buckwheat and various flowers that bloom into autumn. It keeps the bees pleased. Enriches soil and dies back in the fall.
Prepare ground by tilling finely. Broadcast the mixture from July to August. Lightly rake and pack ground. Height reaches 150 cm.
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Beneficial flower meadow Green manures
This rich, thriving mixture makes a beneficial habitat for bees and many beneficial insects with both shelter and food. The soil is penetrated and loosened by its roots. Mainly contains, among others, buckwheat phacelia, flax, sunflower, marigold, lupine, clover, summer vetch, della serra, dill, coriander, and mallow.
Sow from mid-May into a well-tilled garden patch. Rake lightly. Blooms throughout summer. From August, remove withered plants and compost. Height reaches 80–120 cm.
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Sowing quantity 300 g/Are
Landsberger mixture Green manures
This is the classic overwinter green manure. This ground cover mixture includes ryegrass, crimson clover, and winter vetch which fixes nitrogen. It grows plenty of roots and, come springtime, much foliage which gives biomass to the soil. Gets your garden ready for spring workup!
Finely till the soil and broadcast seed from March to September. Lightly rake and pack the soil.
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Nemato-Stop Green manures
Nematodes (roundworms) are microscopic, but can cause ugly visible damage to roots. Once they are in the ground, it is difficult to get rid of them. This mixture consisting of 90% sand and 10% radish oil. It draws the pests away from the host plant and makes them inactive. Effective against Trichodorus, Pratylenchus and Meloidogyne.
Broadcast from April into your well-tilled garden patch. Lightly rake. After the required standing time, the organic material may be incorporated as green manure into the soil or compost. A longer standing time leads to a greater reduction in nematodes.
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Sowing quantity 800 g/Are