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Preventing grass encroachment on vegetable bed
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| Gordon 2008-01-29, 9:25 am |
| My veg patch is in my field at the back - is there a way of preventing the
grass encroaching on the soil? Such as laying gravel boards on their edge
along the grass/soil boundary?
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| Emrys Davies 2008-01-29, 9:25 am |
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"Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> My veg patch is in my field at the back - is there a way of preventing
the
> grass encroaching on the soil? Such as laying gravel boards on their
edge
> along the grass/soil boundary?
I think that that would be effective provided that you bury the gravel
boards to a depth of 9".
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| helene@urbed.coop 2008-01-29, 9:25 am |
| On 29 Jan, 13:42, "Gordon" <gbpli...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> My veg patch is in my field at the back - is there a way of preventing the
> grass encroaching on the soil? Such as laying gravel boards on their edge
> along the grass/soil boundary?
You can use wooden edges, which I do. They look nice. If you have a
very long edge to do, since it's a field you've mentioned, what about
just a trench to one spit depth about 2" wide. We do this on our
allotments - saves money - and you can see the grass trying to come
through sometimes, and just pick it out.
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'Gordon[_3_ Wrote:
> ;772380']My veg patch is in my field at the back - is there a way of
> preventing the
> grass encroaching on the soil? Such as laying gravel boards on their
> edge
> along the grass/soil boundary?
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I did a similar thing a while ago using a steel edging product i found
on the internet. www.everedge.co.uk
It sounds like this would be pretty good for what you need to do (and
it doesn't look too shabby either!)
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pd001
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| 'Mike' 2008-02-18, 1:25 pm |
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"pd001" <pd001.22f4e36@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I did a similar thing a while ago using a steel edging product i found
> on the internet. www.everedge.co.uk
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> It sounds like this would be pretty good for what you need to do (and
> it doesn't look too shabby either!)
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I like your house, but don't you find painting round all of those little
windows a bit of a bore ? ;-)
Mike
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