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Busy day trying to ignore our national parasite problem. Just about finished digging out the brambles, anti-weed membrane, rotten carpet, extremely annoying weed barrier stuff (like a 30cm wide strip of lino buried lengthwise, zero discernible effect on weeds), defunct fence etc etc. Filled four of those massive builders bags so far and have a large pile, got about another four—six bags to go I reckon.
Couch grass is everywhere and roots v deep, a healthy bindweed and nettle patch mingled with plastic carpet remnants at the back.
Big shout out for (Chillington) digging hoes; bought one for the job, and it has been ace. Also a bastard file to keep it sharp because there are stones everywhere.
I’m all for blitzing the whole thing with glyphosate on a calm early spring day, but we’re going to try “mulch organic”. Hopefully more manageable than trying to sort out 100+ m² of cardboard; ~6km to the allotment, no car, and no bastard plastic from tape used to make up boxes, have picked out so so much of that.
Found a dozen wild spuds, so have already had a mini-harvest.