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Getting rid of ground elder
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from Janet Tweedy contains these words: What about covering the ground with black Thingy and putting half grown bulbs through the plastic later on Janet? 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 .............. Covering ground with black plastic, or carpet, to clean ground of serious perennial weeds like GE, requires that all light is excluded. Holes in the plastic let light in, shoots will emerge through them and photosynthesise to feed and multiply the roots below. I see no point mulching on top of a non-degradable or incredibly slow degrading soil-barrier such as plastic or carpet. Janet. |
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