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As for carrots, yes, everybody has them here, but as said earlier, the success is in planting onions alongside them ![]() Broad beans and peas are plentiful down here. Every plot has them. The site itself, is nestled between a reservoir and a large high wall and is quite a vast area, seems very sheltered at times, sun trap, but in the wind, its like a flippin wind tunnel! Soil is gorgeous, well, my plot is, and so is whats coming out of the well rotted heap ![]()
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I won't be having chickens. Have enough with my own pets
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I grew mangy tout once, best thing ever
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When you cleared all the weeds, how did you get rid of them?
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The jungle, was done by strimmer(literally no other option), a few weeks ago, and since then I've been slowly going round, a patch at a time, digging them out and putting them in garden sacks to go to the tip.
One large patch, which is apparent in the recent photos, I covered with carpet and cardboard for the entire time I've had it, roughly six weeks. Lifted it on Thursday, and bang the weeds have gone! Dug the ground over, as they all resembled straw, and the root balls were brown. Some that have been around the edges of the plot, I have cheated and used a weedkiller that is safe to put in compost once the weeds are dug. Any stray raspberry canes have been pulled and disposed of in bags.
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OK. I wondered if you composted them somehow? Clearly not!
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Nah, and the reason being is, that the weeds if they aren't defo killed off, start germinating again, and then you reintroduce the seeds back into your lovely soil. Some are really persistant growers. Couch grass is a major player on this plot.
I've got that much compost ready available I don't really need to compost the weeds anyhow. All veg matter, old cardboard(good for mulch) and stuff goes in the new compost crate.
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