Green manure

Um... Pardon??????

I grew the mustard type a few years ago, with great success. Last year I tried a mix which I think included vetch and clover, but it didn't germinate at all. I am thinking of trying something else this time, so shall be interested in the answers on here.

Yes I was thinking of doing this but which One Ialways leave my runner bean roots in because the nitrogen goes back into soil I think I have got the chemical right We grow on a hillside

It looks like Green Manure is not a subject the average granny has an opinion on. Shame.

I have an opinion on it, I need advice, seriously its dammed hard to grow stuff here

My old gardening book recommends COMFREY. Shame that I have no idea what comfrey is, what it looks like or where to get it.

Our plot is not empty yet. Still harvesting a few courgettes and tomatoes. The parsnips will stay in until the first frost and the leeks will be there all winter until they run out - I will lift one or two each week for soup.

I was so proud of my leeks which I grew from seed. The dammed deer have walked all over them

Granny23 I have grown comfrey in the past and used it to make my own ointment. It contains Allantoin which is a great tissue regenerator. Another name is bone-knit, but there is speculation that it is carcenogenic if taken internally.
It looks a bit like borage.
Actually I might grow it again now you've reminded me.

I still have leeks, winter brassicas, oka, in some beds but have cleared out others (I have a big allotment). The soil here is very clayey (is that a word?) and our allotment was in a poor state when we took it over two years ago. I need to get lots of fibre into it. Like Jenny I dig in my runner bean roots, stalks, etc. in fact anything I can find.

Any more advice, thoughts would be welcome.

Sorry to hear about your leeks!

Thank you your concern about my leeks it is quite personnel i cared for then loved them, then the deer killed them