"Christina Websell" wrote ((SNIP))

However, it's quite rough atm. Even the digger did not get rid of some of
those dreadful tufts of grass and there is huge heap of the ones that it
did. 20 yards long and three feet high. Will this rot down to grow
courgettes in? she says hopefully.

Yes, especially if you cover it with plastic and plant through that.

We haven't attacked the brambles yet. 50 yards x 15 yards at least. How
to do it organically as that's the way we want to go? I suspect slash and
burn.

What we did was burn them down and clear up any bits that didn't. Then I
mowed and kept mowing for a season, they didn't come back the following
year.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK