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HOW RECENT IS RECENT?

You often read that ground should “not have been recently manured” especially if putting down lime. So, just how recent? Obviously, not last week or last month but two months ago? Longer?

Jon Miles, Bedford

The main crops this phrase refers to are root crops, as fresh manured ground can cause these crops to fork or bolt and run to seed. As a general

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