"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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joe wrote:
Thanks for all your advice folks. I'll give them a spray with
gyphosate,
leave for 48 hours, turn them over, burry them at least 6 inches deep and
if
a lawn springs through my newly planted garden I'll tip my hat to nature.

Unless they are riddled with couch, skip the glyphosate. Upside down
and 2" of soil will prevent almost all grasses regrowing. Upside
down and 12" will stop even couch and ground elder.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Speaking of couch grass; When I moved into one particular house the garden
was thick and wick with couch grass and had been like that, for many years.
I knew that to leave just an inch of root would cause rapid trouble so I
double dug the plot quite deeply, sieving and pulling out as much as I
could.
It was Ok for a couple of years then I got another house.
I will conclude with a little true story, unconnected with couch grass to
amuse you. Two days before, I had dug and prepared the soil and spread the
new lawn area with grass seed.
We left the house at about ten a.m. At just about 2p.m. I discovered I had
departed without a couple of items I needed, The new tenants had not yet
been given the keys and I hadn't yet handed them back to the estate office.
When I got there I found that everything in the garden had been looted. The
wide expanse of tilled soil was completely bare!
But , - hear this!,.... All the lawn seed had also gone!. As well as
digging up all the plants someone had scraped all the lawn topsoil off as
well, including the heavy spreading of grass seed ,- and scarpered with
that too.!
Doug.
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