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Getting rid of ground elder
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from Janet Baraclough contains these words: 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. Oh, I can. One of my friends had a plot of almost virgin clay, covered in rank and weedy weeds. He covered it with throwouts from the greengrocer for months, then capped it with bales of straw and old carpet on top of that, all soaked during the construction with the contents of his netty. Then he covered the lot with thick plack polythene and left it for two years. The ground is free of weeds, even the seeds having been cooked in the initial composting, and the worms turned it all into good deep friable loam. So, even a little (compostable) mulch will be beneficial. I'm doing a simiar trick with my garden, a bit at a time. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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