SUNDAY MAIL BREAKING NEWS
The Sunday Mail on 30th January, 2011 under their Gardening segment by Annette McFarlane published an interesting article entitled ”Fast, simple way to improve soil”
Annette writes, “Enriching the soil when revamping old garden beds is as simple as sowing a green manure crop.
This traditional soil improvement method is cheap, easy and spectacularly fast when the weather is warm and humid.
To grow green manure, rake the soil roughly and throw generous handfuls of your chosen green manure seeds over the top.
Rake the seeds lightly into the surface, water in and stand back. In 7-10 days the bed will be completely covered with green leaves.
In three to four weeks – when the crop is knee-high – fork the green material back into the soil. It will enrich it with nutrients and provide food for worms and other soil organisms. When this organic matter breaks down you will be ready to replant.
The good news is, though many products are short, we have ample stocks of Lab Lab.
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The exceptional performance of Floren bluegrass on Queensland’s Isaac River frontage country inundated by the damaging January 08 floods has impressed a gathering of cattle producers.
It was found that this grass became the dominant pasture species ahead of buffel and bambatsi panic and dominated and out-competed the post flood rush of parthenium weed.
“Even with limited plant numbers, once this grass is established, it will seed prolifically and make a valuable contribution to livestock productivity”, remarked a DPI & F principal experimentalist.
Sourced from the Land Newspaper
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Are you not sure what grass will suit your particular conditions or even how it looks when established? Following is a list of grasses and legumes we have condensed into a pictorial fact sheet which we are happy to forward to you by email.
If email is not convenient, please give us a call and we will put what you need in the post or fax it to you.
| Carbon Buster™ Grasses | ||
| Bambatsi Panic | NuCal Guinea grass | Signal grass |
| Blue Dawn | Panics | Setaria |
| Buffel grass | Pearl Millet | Strickland fingergrass |
| Creeping blue grass | Perennial forage sorghum | Swann forest bluegrass |
| Floren bluegrass | Premier Digit grass | |
| Humidicola | Queensland bluegrass | |
| Keppel Indian bluegrass | Rhodes grass | |
| Kikuyu | Saraji sabigrass | |
| Carbon Buster™Legumes | ||
| Butterfly pea | Fine stem stylo | Siratro |
| Carbon Buster Stylo | Greenleaf desmodium | Wynn cassia |
| Creeping Vigna | Shrubby Stylo | |
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