jansman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 2:59 pm
No 17 blackberry. You got the strawberry and rhubarb right for sure.
Cheers.
The strawberry covers a big area, but knotted well in with weeds. I'll try to mostly leave that in situ and weed around it. Though some will be transplanted to the garden beds at home.
The blackberry, I'll read up on, but probably try to shape up into one area. It's a bit sprawling, all over paths.
Rhubarb pleases me.
You let me down on #15. the stick tied to a stick
I could do with knowing what #18 and #19 are because there's lots of it and it has dried seed pods. I need to know whether I dare compost it. About 5 ft tall like straw coloured dead canes.
I was initially thinking I'd work from one end to the other to clear it, but that's a NO. These bits and bobs are disbursed, so i'll be working around them.
My thinking now is to take one central area that I know has nothing worthwhile and dig that ready to sow or move things to. Then I'll spend a bit of effort weeding those berry patches. There's a day's work just tidying the shaded compost area. As I clear an area, I'll plant or move stuff into it thus clearing the next space. All rather haphazard sounding, but it works in my head.
I'm thinking of getting a small levelled area of a couple of sq m which I'll literally mow over and over to break up compostables like dead leaves of which there are plenty. The existing compost heap needs a lot of work.
I'm a bit concerned that if I try to compost the junk that i'm tearing out, it will be too woody and full of weed seeds. So I'm thinking a long term compost heap with the woodier bits and a quick, softer compost heap with leaves and greens, if you see what I mean. None of it will be quick. I know composting needs a mix of brown & green, but short of buying a shredder there's too much woody brown.
One bit of good news..... The site manager is pretty relaxed about the rules, so i have a bit of time to show progress.
Disposing of weeds:
All these videos on Youtube of folks clearing their allotments of bramble and weeds: They never show what they do with the topgrowth. And I'm befuddled and don't want to get it wrong.
I want to compost most weeds, but Docks and some others are just masses of seeds. Just composting those seeds is surely a no-no. Where do I draw the line between binning weeds to composting them?
Am I overthinking this?
I could do with knowing what this is and how to deal with it. The top-growth is dried out death incarnate, but totally peppered with
small dried out pods full of seeds. Should i single this out for binning off-site. this and docks.
of those,which sees that plant off, ( but the new ones are chasing anyway) and LOTS of green onion. Winner!
