Soup for squally weather
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<h4>You're browser does not support iFrames - here is an exerpt of the content</h4> <a href="http://the-gardener.blog.co.uk/2009/11/24/pests-vegetable-and-animal-7449776/">Click here to read the article in full</a> <p>It is not a new idea of course, the covering of ground with plastic to prevent weeds. I have not used it because if I am here then weeding is part of <a title="growing" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/growing/">growing</a>. Removing weeds cultivates the sol and lets the air in, the weeds removed are material for the compost heap. I even let them grow to a size at which they still present no competition for the crop then crop the weeds as extra bulk.</p> <p>This year I tried a strip of heavy DPC material laid across the plot as weed suppression. I sowed Spinach along one edge and along the other <a title="Beetroot" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/beetroot/">Beetroot</a>, my ground produces weeds almost like a sowing of Mustard and Cress, only a fool would ‘sow and forget’. Yet that is what I did, I am developing methods that allow me to sow and go (off to the sun). The Spinach and Beetroot germinated and have cropped well without any weeding at all.</p> <p>Here they are now.</p> <p><img src="http://i34.tinypic.com/2e1drmr.jpg" alt="" title=""></p> <p>On one side side of the two sowings were establish well weeded rows of other crops so the weed problems from there were minimal, on the side I laid my access planks which I walk on in a pseudo Deep Bed system.</p> <p>The other pests (animal) are easing up now, I felt guilty when I caught my first Field Mouse, however you cant have the number that were establish <a title="around the house" href="http://gardenersvoice.com/category/around-the-house/">around the house</a> and garden here. When you get to No.66, this little chap, that is an infestation.</p> <p><img src="http://i33.tinypic.com/208fmn7.jpg" alt="" title=""></p> <p> <small> <a href="http://the-gardener.blog.co.uk/2009/11/24/pests-vegetable-and-animal-7449776/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> <div style="display: none">VN:F [1.6.3_896]</div><div class="ratingblock"><div class="ratingblock "><div class="ratingheader ">Rate this Article</div><div class="ratingstars "><div id="article_rater_13998" class="ratepost gdsr-soft gdsr-size-24"><div class="starsbar gdsr-size-24"><div class="gdouter gdheight"><div id="gdr_vote_a13998" style="width: 0px;" class="gdinner gdheight"></div><div id="gdr_stars_a13998" class="gdsr_rating_as"><a id="gdsrX13998X5X0XaXarticle_rater_13998Xarticle_loader_13998X10X24" title="5 / 5" class="s5" rel="nofollow"></a><a id="gdsrX13998X4X0XaXarticle_rater_13998Xarticle_loader_13998X10X24" title="4 / 5" class="s4" rel="nofollow"></a><a id="gdsrX13998X3X0XaXarticle_rater_13998Xarticle_loader_13998X10X24" title="3 / 5" class="s3" rel="nofollow"></a><a id="gdsrX13998X2X0XaXarticle_rater_13998Xarticle_loader_13998X10X24" title="2 / 5" class="s2" rel="nofollow"></a><a id="gdsrX13998X1X0XaXarticle_rater_13998Xarticle_loader_13998X10X24" title="1 / 5" class="s1" rel="nofollow"></a></div></div></div></div><div id="article_loader_13998" style="display: none; width: 120px; " class="ratingloader article"><div class="loader flower " style="height: 24px"><div class="loaderinner" style="padding-top: 2px">please wait...</div></div></div></div><div class="ratingtext "><div id="gdr_text_a13998">Rating: 0.0/<strong>5</strong> (0 votes cast)</div></div></div></div>
