Plant of the Month: Buy 2 for £15
Choose 3 of this item and your £9.99 saving will be applied
Choose any 3 and get the cheapest FREE!
Free Tomato 'Sweet Success' Pack of Seeds with the first 1,000 orders this weekend
Plant of the Month - Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price
Please Note
3 For 2 on Christmas Cropping Potatoes
Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price
Buy 2 Save £10.00 on This Variety
Description
Caliente Mustard Seed is not just a green manure - it also acts as a bio-fumigant for the soil. Bio-fumigants suppress various soil-borne pests and diseases by releasing naturally occurring compounds.
The foliage must be crushed or finely chopped for it to release a natural gas (isothiocyanate) which effectively reduces and suppresses a range of harmful nematodes and diseases in the any type of soil.
The combination of bio-fumigation plus the digging in of the green material, increases beneficial soil microbes, which out-compete pathogen microbes helping to keep soil diseases down.
The finer the chop the better the result, running over the area with a rotary mower or strimmer to chop well before digging in to the top 6 inches of soil is a simple way of incorporating the crop.
The benefits of use for the home gardener for most crop and soil types are:
-
Improved root systems and a measurable increase in yield of following crops.
-
Suppression of a range of soil-borne diseases including Verticillium wilt, Rhizoctonia, Pythium, Fusarium, and Sclerotinia.
-
Suppresses a range of harmful nematode species.
-
Improved soil structure and fertility.
-
Suppresses weeds - mainly soft-seeded annuals - soon after incorporation.
Caliente Mustard can be sown in spring or late summer for a quick crop, or mid-autumn for over-wintering in milder areas. One pack will cover: 70sq yards / 58sq metres
Growing Calendar
Delivery
Delivery to outside of Great Britain
We regret we are unable to deliver any products to non-mainland Great Britain delivery addresses. This includes Europe, Channel Islands, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, USA and Rest of World. We will update our website if this changes.
For more information about our deliveries please click here.