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Old 31-10-2012, 10:55 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Raymond RUSSELL Raymond RUSSELL is offline
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Default Using plastic tarpaulin to suppress weeds


Hello all

My vegetable garden is swamped in weeds
with very fine hair roots
that are almost impossible to clear by simply digging out.
I think they arrived in the manure a local farmer gave me.
They just keep reappearing year after year
and tend to elbow out young veg seedlings etc.

Does covering the ground with plastic tarpaulin
over winter and early spring actually help ?

Best regards
Ray

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