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Hi all, can you please help with my dilemma?
I have to choose between 2 allotments, both of which are in abandoned states. One site absolutely full of horsetail, and I mean so chock-a-block that in some places I can hardly get a fork in for the roots. The other site is full of couch grass and is very wet (I can hear the soil squelching when I walk on it). It's between a rock and a hard place! Do I choose soggy couch grass or a zillion horsetail? Thanks. |
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Mel wrote: Hi all, can you please help with my dilemma? I have to choose between 2 allotments, both of which are in abandoned states. One site absolutely full of horsetail, and I mean so chock-a-block that in some places I can hardly get a fork in for the roots. The other site is full of couch grass and is very wet (I can hear the soil squelching when I walk on it). It's between a rock and a hard place! Do I choose soggy couch grass or a zillion horsetail? That's great!!! At long last you've got a plot. I'll go for any, both sound terrible, like mine, his, hers, theirs was ;o) Can I try a test whilst I'm here? I hope you don't mind. I understand better the foreign stuff ... http://cjoint.com/data/bFo2NCq2OR.htm |
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from "Mel" contains these words: Hi all, can you please help with my dilemma? I have to choose between 2 allotments, both of which are in abandoned states. One site absolutely full of horsetail, and I mean so chock-a-block that in some places I can hardly get a fork in for the roots. The other site is full of couch grass and is very wet (I can hear the soil squelching when I walk on it). It's between a rock and a hard place! Do I choose soggy couch grass or a zillion horsetail? Hang around at the weekend and try to meet some nearby alotmenters. Ask them if the swamp is wet all summer. If it had just been saturated by recent rain, it might be fine in summer, but even if it isn't you can build raised beds for growing in, and never have to worry about watering. The horsetail one will be a long nightmare. I would rather wait for another vacancy than take a horsetail plot. Janet |
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"La Puce" wrote in message oups.com... Mel wrote: Hi all, can you please help with my dilemma? I have to choose between 2 allotments, both of which are in abandoned states. One site absolutely full of horsetail, and I mean so chock-a-block that in some places I can hardly get a fork in for the roots. The other site is full of couch grass and is very wet (I can hear the soil squelching when I walk on it). It's between a rock and a hard place! Do I choose soggy couch grass or a zillion horsetail? That's great!!! At long last you've got a plot. I'll go for any, both sound terrible, like mine, his, hers, theirs was ;o) Can I try a test whilst I'm here? I hope you don't mind. I understand better the foreign stuff ... http://cjoint.com/data/bFo2NCq2OR.htm test - not working........ Jenny |
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"La Puce" wrote in message oups.com... Mel wrote: Hi all, can you please help with my dilemma? I have to choose between 2 allotments, both of which are in abandoned states. One site absolutely full of horsetail, and I mean so chock-a-block that in some places I can hardly get a fork in for the roots. The other site is full of couch grass and is very wet (I can hear the soil squelching when I walk on it). It's between a rock and a hard place! Do I choose soggy couch grass or a zillion horsetail? That's great!!! At long last you've got a plot. I'll go for any, both sound terrible, like mine, his, hers, theirs was ;o) Can I try a test whilst I'm here? I hope you don't mind. I understand better the foreign stuff ... http://cjoint.com/data/bFo2NCq2OR.htm What was the test then? A pdf file of your plants?? Jim |
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"Janet Baraclough" replied
I have to choose between 2 allotments, Do I choose soggy couch grass or a zillion horsetail? you can build raised beds for growing in, and never have to worry about watering. The horsetail one will be a long nightmare. I would rather wait for another vacancy than take a horsetail plot. Thanks for the reply, Janet. I'm swaying towards the couch grass plot because I know that horsetail is even more of a nightmare! I started digging out the horsetail last weekend (it's just starting to emerge from dormancy). In just a 2x1 foot area I had half a bucket full of roots (and that was the area with fewest horsetails). However, the couch grass is also totally covering the allotment with not a single inch free of it. Both plots are crap, actually, and I'm wondering if I should bother at all, but I've been on the waiting list for many years and it could be many more years before anything else becomes vacant. Decisions, decisions! Regards. |
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Jimmy wrote: What was the test then? A pdf file of your plants?? Yep. As simple as it may seem, to some, I couldn't work out how to make a url link and show my pdf. Someone mentioned My Place but I like simple design. I'd like my own site but I'm picky - I'd like something along the line of this one below ... http://muriel.bernard.free.fr/dhtml/haiku.html |
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"Mel" wrote Hi all, can you please help with my dilemma? I have to choose between 2 allotments, both of which are in abandoned states. One site absolutely full of horsetail, and I mean so chock-a-block that in some places I can hardly get a fork in for the roots. The other site is full of couch grass and is very wet (I can hear the soil squelching when I walk on it). It's between a rock and a hard place! Do I choose soggy couch grass or a zillion horsetail? The Horsetail you can't do anything much about, the couch is easily killed permanently with glyphosate (Roundup) as that's what it's designed for. The alternative is digging it out every year because you won't get it all. :-( The soggy soil may be just a winter thing, you will have to ask neighbours, but the soil is something you can change over time by using compost, muck, mushroom compost.....etc. Our last allotment had Horsetail and being someone who doesn't like weeds on his plot I wouldn't want another with it as it never goes away. -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
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Mel wrote: (snip) I'm wondering if I should bother at all, but I've been on the waiting list for many years and it could be many more years before anything else becomes vacant. Decisions, decisions! All the plots are like that! Unless you are very lucky and move onto one when the last tenants are moving out quickly. It's unlikely that someone will leave a good plot behind, even if they move far away from it. If you choose a 3 or 4 or 5 years crop rotation, that's what you are looking at for your plot to be good, either 3 years, or 4 or 5. So start slowly, leave half fallow and green manure it. Don't try to do everything at once. It might look grim now, and you have a lot of work, but start with a little shed, somewhere to contemplate from, a kettle and a good seat. Make some drawings of what you'd like to have and it will all fall into place ... eventually ) |
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"La Puce" wrote in message oups.com... Jimmy wrote: What was the test then? A pdf file of your plants?? Yep. As simple as it may seem, to some, I couldn't work out how to make a url link and show my pdf. Someone mentioned My Place but I like simple design. I'd like my own site but I'm picky - I'd like something along the line of this one below ... http://muriel.bernard.free.fr/dhtml/haiku.html Does your ISP not provide free web space or do you access via work? That appears to be how the above one mentioned above has been set up by Muriel. Jim |
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Jimmy wrote: Does your ISP not provide free web space or do you access via work? I've had a thought. I've got gradewell. Perhaps there's some space there. I'm a bit in a creative mood atm ;o) That appears to be how the above one mentioned above has been set up by Muriel. Do you mean to say she used free web space or did she do a link like I did with my pdf? Did you like it btw? |
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"La Puce" wrote in message oups.com... Jimmy wrote: Does your ISP not provide free web space or do you access via work? I've had a thought. I've got gradewell. Perhaps there's some space there. I'm a bit in a creative mood atm ;o) That appears to be how the above one mentioned above has been set up by Muriel. Do you mean to say she used free web space or did she do a link like I did with my pdf? Did you like it btw? looks like free space from http://www.free.fr/ but might not be as not really up to scratch with the languageI am afraid. Did like though a bit busy and crowded like that, where are the piccies from? |
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"La Puce" wrote in message oups.com... Jimmy wrote: What was the test then? A pdf file of your plants?? Yep. As simple as it may seem, to some, I couldn't work out how to make a url link and show my pdf. Someone mentioned My Place but I like simple design. I'd like my own site but I'm picky - I'd like something along the line of this one below ... http://muriel.bernard.free.fr/dhtml/haiku.html http://www.rdpslides.com/psfaq/FAQ00050.htm ?? Jenny |
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Jimmy wrote: looks like free space from http://www.free.fr/ but might not be as not really up to scratch with the languageI am afraid. I'll have a look on this site and on gradewell. Perhaps there's even a way to teach me how to make a nice page. Did like though a bit busy and crowded like that, where are the piccies from? When I said 'did you like it' I meant Muriel's poem and images that you swip with your cursor. But now I realise that it looks like I meant if you liked the pdf ... The pics are from my garden last year. I've got tons of photographs this is why I'd like to set up a site and would like to put my lotty on it too. I feel I've never have enough time ... tho ( |
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from "Mel" contains these words: However, the couch grass is also totally covering the allotment with not a single inch free of it. Both plots are crap, actually, and I'm wondering if I should bother at all, but I've been on the waiting list for many years and it could be many more years before anything else becomes vacant. Decisions, decisions! You can get rid of couch grass by excluding all light (cardboard catrons, old wool carpet, old tarpaulins) until it dies. Janet |
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