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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: mdjlucan on March 19, 2017, 15:13

Title: Fruit patch
Post by: mdjlucan on March 19, 2017, 15:13

patch no matter how much I take the grass out it still keeps coming back how can I stop  for once and for all

Title: Re: Fruit patch
Post by: stompy on March 20, 2017, 08:10

What fruit are you growing in the patch?

Title: Re: Fruit patch
Post by: snowdrops on March 20, 2017, 08:38

If you don't mind spraying, glyphosate it, once or twice should get rid, or cover it with cardboard,  then membrane & mulch it with bark

Title: Re: Fruit patch
Post by: stompy on March 20, 2017, 08:47

Quote from: snowdrops on March 20, 2017, 08:38

If you don't mind spraying, glyphosate it, once or twice should get rid, or cover it with cardboard,  then membrane & mulch it with bark

This i why i was asking whats in the patch, if it's just bushes and trees, then cardboard and straw does a really good job and last about 2 years then you just compost the straw and do the same again.
If its strawberrys then a little more care needs to be taken and a good quality weed membrane is best and chipped bark.

Andy

Title: Re: Fruit patch
Post by: whitehill1 on March 20, 2017, 10:57

I recommend straw too. Cardboard in addition can stop weeds and improve the drainage aswell

Title: Re: Fruit patch
Post by: mdjlucan on March 20, 2017, 19:47

Gooseberries Rasburyis blackcurrant rhubarb strawberries

Title: Re: Fruit patch
Post by: p6t6 on March 23, 2017, 22:10

Grass is getting a pain for me too. I've laid down black plastic between the rows so far. I'm hoping to pick up woodchip or straw to cover soon. Hope the plastic doesn't offer a safe haven for the slugs. Time will tell.