[casper]

Hi, Couch grass loves my allotment. Unfortunately we are not gifted with skips at our site and fires are not allowed. I want to compost as much as I can but have read couch should not be composted. Could it be if it was treated with a glyphosphate weedkiller first? Or should I just drop it off at my local tip on the way home?

[Plot 6B]

You can drown it first for a few weeks and then compost it!

[ilan]

I tend to put all my weeds into a black plastic bag and leave in the sun for a few days then put still in the bag onto the compost heap a year or so later you should have a bag of compost

[casper]

Thank you sounds like a good plan. They are so distinctive I would definately know if the monsters were still alive!!

[solway cropper]

Like N2P I tend to soak perennial weeds for months before composting. But beware, couch is a beggar to kill, even by drowning. I've had a tub of weeds soaking since last autumn and took off the lid the other day to find fresh new shoots coming out of the water from some of the couch grass 

[Yorkie]

I bung it in my green wheelie bin at home.

[catweazle]

i stuff it in black plastic bags (for storage and to weaken it) with the docks ect until im ready to build a hot heap. when i build the hot heap all the preninal weeds go though a shreader before the pulp that comes out goes in the hot heap.

ps. be carefull which black bags you buy. those 'green' black bags are biodegradable and the twitch can get out! 

[digalotty]

i take no chances,  i save them up and the site skip gets em along with any marestail that has the cheek to pop up

[Christine]

I'm with the take no chances brigade and bag up couch to be taken entirely off the plot.

[mumofstig]

same here - also the bindweed - all horrible stuff 

[casper]

Off to the lottie now to collect it and take the tip, sounds like scary stuff

[casper]

Couch all gone now to the local tip :happy:

[Christine]

Hurrah Casper. That couch won't grow again on your plot. Not to say that other couch won't but that lot is done and dusted. 

[richrua]

some of the oul ones call it scotch grass here.

from experience, with my plot riddled with the stuff, it will regrow very rapidly from the tiniest fragment.

So I don't compost mine. I keep a bucket handy when weeding and put these and any perrenials off plot...

This is my third-ish season now and I notice a lot of the couch has almost gone from my most worked areas. . . patience can beat most things in the garden....

[Growster...]

some of the oul ones call it scotch grass here.

from experience, with my plot riddled with the stuff, it will regrow very rapidly from the tiniest fragment.

So I don't compost mine. I keep a bucket handy when weeding and put these and any perrenials off plot...

This is my third-ish season now and I notice a lot of the couch has almost gone from my most worked areas. . . patience can beat most things in the garden....

You're absolutely right Rich!

This year, there are still a few fragments left in after I hoiked out nearly 50 barrow loads from half a plot about 18 months ago!

The small bits I missed just don't get a look-in now, and are easy to see and pull out!

There's no other way really...