Why do green manures turn white? Explanations

Sown in the summer, green manures suffer in winter, but for a good cause, the onslaught of frost. More than a ground cover, some help in the work with their powerful roots.

Frost on green manures

Similar, at best to the state of a cooked salad or at worst of a frozen bean, the green manures of the moment are very useful.
Installed in summer and fall, they will be ready to be buried as soon as the thaw occurs. The plots enriched and structured thanks to the powerful roots of certain fertilizers, can receive after this work, the spring crops.

Prune green manure

• You have to chop the fertilizers. Opposite in the photo, in a greenhouse, the green manures which improve the soil are pruned at the end of winter.
• After a harsh winter, they will be soft, it’s easy, they will decompose.

Phacelia

•  In summer and when they are in full vegetation, they can be mowed or pulled up and left as mulch on the ground.
• In March, spotlight on the phacelia , a beautiful honey flower . If it occupies the land for more than two months, it is always possible to pull part of it to cultivate its vegetables in May. Leave the rest in place.

Sow green manures as soon as a square empties

Alfalfa should be sown sparingly as it is very difficult to remove. It should be installed in plots left to rest for at least three years and mown to feed rabbits for example.

The smartest will have benefited from the benefits of winter spinach at a rate of 50 g / 10 m2, it enriches the soil with nitrogen. Start between two crops, and let the earthworms bury the cut leaves. It will always be possible to take some leaves for personal consumption.

For late gardeners, settled in October, rye has a fasciculate root system(without main root), but with multiple rootlets which improve the structure of the soil. In addition, its intense vegetation suffocates weeds. Associated with the vetch (150 g / 10 m2), with the rapid growth, it cleans the ground of the weeds. Vetch is, moreover, a Fabaceae which fixes nitrogen from the air in the soil and which thrives in clay soil.

In season, you can play with mixtures of crimson clover, mustard, buckwheat, wheat. 
If the ideal is to cut these fertilizers just before flowering, but it is so pretty that sometimes you can let