Clearing an overgrown plot

lostinrates

Lettuce_Turnip_The_Beet wrote: »

Morning all!

We've been researching things like mad over the last few days. Fortunately we've a builder among us, so we'll be foraging any discarded windows, wood and pallets to build our raised beds, mini greenhouses and what not.

I am terribly excited.

Sgh.

Sure you don't want to do a land share with other musicians instead?

What we'd do for a builder to help with things like that!

We've been trying for some years to figure out how we can turn a weed filled rubble mound at the side of our muck heap that looks in to a soft fruit garden that looks presentable on a shoe string.....I can think of lots of great ways that involve money, or that look rough! :rotfl:

Lettuce_Turnip_The_Beet

No thanks lostinrates. He's ours....You can't have him.

I kinda just want to get stuck in now.

Mojisola

Yorkie1 wrote: »

One point about flamethrowers is that on perennial weeds they frequently do not get rid of roots, so regrowth can be common.

They also kill off all the useful soil bacteria.

If you're killing off soil bacteria with your flame gun, you're not using it properly! All it needs to kill weeds is a quick pass over the top growth to burst the plant cells.

This obviously won't affect the roots of perennial weeds so they will still need to be dug out after the top growth has died back.

Lettuce_Turnip_The_Beet

Boom and the weeds are gone. Well.....sort of.

We strimmed the entire site (34ft x 45ft), gathered the clippings, created our compost heap and are heading back tonight to glyphosate the bejeezus out of it.

We rehoused a couple of Frogs and field mice and cut down 50% of our remaining crop i.e 1 fennel plant we thought was a weed. Honestly we weren't sure if we were hallucinating or having a stroke but we could smell aniseed. Fennel it was. Fennel be gone.

RAS

You might find the following useful;

http://organicgardening.about.com/od/startinganorganicgarden/a/lasagnagarden.htm

Does not have to be done organically but is a heck of a lot easier than double digging.

http://www.easydigging.com/blog/compost-tractor.html

Ditto.

Add a little HLA to those weeds you have strimmed for a start.