Garden terms

 Instructions such as - sow in ground manured last year. Does that mean
if I manure now I can sow next Spring, or only if I manured at least a
year before sowing? Also we all know that officially Spring is March
21st to Summer June 21st to Autumn September 21st to Winter December
21st, but according to a gardening book I read recently gardening Early
Spring is Feb. Mid Spring March, Late Spring April with Summer, Autumn
ans Winter following on in sequential 3 month steps. What are others
opinions?


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Residing on low ground in North Staffordshire

 

Manure the ground in autumn and let the frost and worms do the job of
breaking it down and taking it into the soil. Personally, I've no faith
in these dates because the variations in temps are far too great across
 the country. It's spring in your garden when you feel it is!  Make
sure that whoever is supplying the manure is quite certain there is no
aminopyralid in it.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 

I was with you until I got to "aminopyralid"  :-)

A quick Google sorted it for me :-)

Bill

 

I learned the name because whenever this subject comes up, I get tired
typing "that weed killer stuff that passes through the animal leaving
it unscathed but remains for ages in the manure, badly affecting any
crops treated with it."  Phew!  ;-)
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon