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Old 27-08-2003, 04:03 PM
Christopher Norton
 
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Default black plastic to cover allotment

Goto the Trussed Rafter Associations website (http://www.tra.org.uk if i
remember correctly) search on google will find it for you.

Go to the member list and find your nearest one. Ring them up and ask em
for some old timber sheets. What they actually are if your thinking they
are pluywood or something silly like that is plastic sheeting which is
used to wrap the packs of timber up with. We cant get rid of the damn
things and in one trip you could net yourself enough plastic to cover
your allotment over 2 or 3 times.

I lifted one of my sheets off my lottie this weekend and the soil was
moist with absolutly no weeds in it at all.

The only problem you will find is that there will be holes in it and
stuff will grow through the holes but you can just cover the holes with
other sheets.

Trust me on this, you`d be doing your local truss manufacturer a favour
let alone the enviroment.

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