Similar sort of thing to us, we make plenty of compost and spread that
everywhere as a mulch. Any weed is easy to how and disturb. We only have
small gardens and take in prunings etc from our neighbour, pass everything
through the shredder and compost it. We have 3 compost bins, just about to
make another and have sacks of ready use compost lined up.

Our gardens are a picture now and I don't know if the 'open garden' scheme
is going to be organised, but now is the time to see them.

Mike

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On Saturday, June 8, 2013 12:15:44 AM UTC+1,
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I spent a while today crawling under the fruit bushes
(red/white/blackcurrants
and gooseberries) and dragging out the weeds, which I swear weren't there
a
week ago. Mostly sticky weed (my arms are all mottled red now, yuk) and a
bit
of bindweed. Not had much stickyweed before, I think it may be due to
Daniel
spreading the seeds last year. :-/
I figured there must be a better way to do this. Satisfying though it
was.
What do people normally do to their fruit bushes to supress weeds? I
figure
it has to be some kind of mulching, as weed blanket would stop any new
shoots
coming up from the base. Although you may want to do that.
What kind of mulch would be effective?

Dumping assorted prunings there works pretty well, feeds them too.


NT