After last year when the weeds became too much for us, we have tried to minimise the weed area using weed control fabric. We seem to have acquired two types, one was cheap polythene from Tesco and the other was thicker matting from a garden centre.
The thicker matting seems to be better at letting water through, and will probably last more than one season.
The above two pictures show onions and peas
The problems we have seen with weeks control fabric are :
- holding the fabric down with wind and chickens moving it about
- weed still growing under the fabric and lifting it up in the middle - how to remove these weeds
- how to remove the root veg from under the fabric once they have grown
over the winter, I really should have covered the ground in mulch and tarpaulin to stop the weed kicking off. Maybe next year
Think you might need some heavy duty weed fabric. Might work a bit better.
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