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A friend of mine has taken on an allotment which has a lot of grass, which has been cut. An elderly allotmenteer told her to take off the turf, let it dry, then burn it. This surely is sacrilege. I would stack it and let it convert to loam. Leave it long enough and the weeds will die off or can be sifted out. Isn't that how loam is made, in a turf stack? Pam in Bristol |
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"Pam Moore" wrote in message
... A friend of mine has taken on an allotment which has a lot of grass, which has been cut. An elderly allotmenteer told her to take off the turf, let it dry, then burn it. This surely is sacrilege. I would stack it and let it convert to loam. Leave it long enough and the weeds will die off or can be sifted out. Isn't that how loam is made, in a turf stack? Pam in Bristol Pam., The ideal thing for your friend to do is to dig the grass in and that means turning the grass turfs, spade deep, upside down and then the grass will rot and form a loam. |
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"Emrys Davies" wrote "Pam Moore" wrote in message A friend of mine has taken on an allotment which has a lot of grass, which has been cut. An elderly allotmenteer told her to take off the turf, let it dry, then burn it. This surely is sacrilege. I would stack it and let it convert to loam. Leave it long enough and the weeds will die off or can be sifted out. Isn't that how loam is made, in a turf stack? The ideal thing for your friend to do is to dig the grass in and that means turning the grass turfs, spade deep, upside down and then the grass will rot and form a loam. Except it's liable to be Couch Grass IME so needs letting grow a bit and spraying with Roundup and leaving to die. Digging out Couch is a full time job and well beyond most allotment gardeners available time, and your friend would be well advised not to try growing anything else in the mean time. So get your friend to dig up some and see if it contains Couch or any other perennial weeds, like Bind Weed and if so there is no realistic alternative to weedkiller if they want to garden. Of course if they are prepared to leave it for a season or two without growing anything they could cover it with something. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
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On 20 Aug, 08:19, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
"Emrys Davies" wrote "Pam Moore" *wrote in message A friend of mine has taken on an allotment which has a lot of grass, which has been cut. An elderly allotmenteer told her to take off the turf, let it dry, then burn it. *This surely is sacrilege. *I would stack it and let it convert to loam. *Leave it long enough and the weeds will die off or can be sifted out. *Isn't that how loam is made, in a turf stack? The ideal thing for your friend to do is to dig the grass in and that means turning the grass turfs, spade deep, upside down and then the grass will rot and form a loam. Except it's liable to be Couch Grass IME so needs letting grow a bit and spraying with Roundup and leaving to die. Digging out Couch is a full time job and well beyond most allotment gardeners available time, and your friend would be well advised not to try growing anything else in the mean time. So get your friend to dig up some and see if it contains Couch or any other perennial weeds, like Bind Weed and if so there is no realistic alternative to weedkiller if they want to garden. Of course if they are prepared to leave it for a season or two without growing anything they could cover it with something. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London You are right Pam. you take off the turf about1 to 2 inches thick, and build it into a wall face down,left for a couple of years the gress rots down and you are left with good potting loam. If the ground has a lot of couch grass (Twitch to some of you) then building a turf wall of it wont kill it off but you can still spray the wall when the grass grows, that way you may not need so much on the plot. On one alotment site in Cardiff, when someone was taking over a deralict plot they would cover the site with old palats and burn them prior to the new user taking over, that cleared a lot of the weed and weed seed and gave them an easier start. One answer to a bad plot is to work it a bit at a time, or get BBC to use it for a gardening prog. when they can throw loads of money at it. David Hill |
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