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Secondly, I have cleared the wilderness alongside the hard standing at the
bottom of my garden and I now just want to know the best way to kill off any
remaining weeds in the soil around it. Is there anything not too anti-social
that I can zap the soil with before I decide what to plant in it, or is it
simply a matter of weeding the soil from time to time until the weeds stop
coming through?

How long have you been in the house?
If it's just a short time, then there may be some nice plants in your
wilderness that would be worth saving. And it's a bad time, now, to
clear things, as the birds will all be nesting.

When we moved into our wilderness, we tried to do things a bit at a time
so we could replace old habitat with new without creating an interim
desert. It took about 3 years to get the soil 'clean' by the hand
weeding method. By clean, I mean that the weeds now appear in ones and
twos rather than by the carpet.

We have an acquaintance, however, who just sprays glyphosate everywhere
to create a desert which then takes a few years to plant up and
establish - but even using this method the weed seeds left in the soil
still germinate!!

The choice is yours.
--
Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
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