Hi everyone

I'm new to gardening. Just been given my first allotment, and spent
a few days with a brush cutter clearing the dense undergrowth, and was
planning to spray the plot with weedkiller, cover it with black
plastic for the winter, and then start digging it over, and planting
things in say February. But have I overdone it? I've cropped the
vegetation so close to the bare earth that there's hardly any green
showing. I was going to use glysophate, which I understand can only
be absorbed into the root systems of the grass and weeds via the leaf,
and is destroyed by contact with the soil. So this seems to mean
that either I give the weeds a chance to recover before I can use
glysophate on them, or I need to find another safe weedkiller.

Any comments?


Ken Cohen