Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Allan-25J on November 09, 2019, 19:49
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Hiya Gang
I need to dig up my strawberries they been in the same ground the 2 years I had the plot and approx 5 years before that. I have taken plenty or runners for the new area.
The Raspberries are swamped with bindweed. So will dig them out and move a few to a new area or buy some new ones.
Question is can I put the unwanted plants in the compost, now? after they dried out? or is it best to burn the lot?
Regards and respect
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The strawberries can be composted, but they will just regrow in there unless you dry them out or really bury them in the heap. If they are really woody in the centre, you might have to chop them up a bit.
Raspberry canes don't really break down unless shredded and if they are full of bindweed, I would just bin or burn the surplus plants. If you are going to move the raspberries to clear them of bindweed, you will have to pick through them really carefully to get every last bit of bindweed root. It might be worth buying fresh stock and starting with clean new canes :)
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thanks for the advise