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Getting rid of ground elder
"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... In article , Janet Baraclough writes [snip] What about covering the ground with black Thingy and putting half grown bulbs through the plastic later on Janet? Twelve months of covering ground elder with black polythene certainly does not eradicate them. I tried it and failed. If you mulched the ground thickly as well you might get away with stopping the ground elder coming through if a lot has been taken away. I did try it on one bed of my vegetable area but sad to say the mulch is now four foot tall and contains two carpet layers, two layers of very thick newspaper and lots of grass clipping etc and STILL the ground elder comes through................. Sigh .............. Quite. I even though about putting that chemical on the ground that stops ALL germination for six months, as the area is useless for growing on in, case I break any more roots of the weed. So I have a 14 foot square bed that I haven't grown anything in save blackberries for about ten years Hence my oft repeated mantra to get on with the glyphosate. It works. Nothing, nothing else will eradicate ground elder. Franz |
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