Hi, I'm really sorry if this is in the wrong place I couldn't decide where to.put it 😣
I have just gotten hold of my very first allotment. We've probably done entirely the wrong thing already and made more work for ourselves but I wondered if I was missing something or doing something wrong.
The plot has 7 slightly raised beds which has some bootiful top soil in it however it's hidden under bind weed and alsorts. Tonight we ripped out a lot of the grass in it and anything else we could pull up whole by hand. We then ook a fork to it and dug up what we couldn't pull up. In those two beds I am now stuck with loads and loads of bits of root. I sat for a bit and sieved but noticed a lot of the bits of weed are still passing through the sieve.
Is sitting and picking each bit out my only option? Was there a better way in the first place that we should have done? We've another 5 of them to go so any advice if we've made a muck up if it would be very greatly received 😀
It's the same way I've always dug a flower bed at home but that just involved taking off the grass this seems like an impossible task to remove it. I didn't imagine it would be a 5 minute job by any means but really thought the sieve would do the job 😣
Thanks for reading
I have just gotten hold of my very first allotment. We've probably done entirely the wrong thing already and made more work for ourselves but I wondered if I was missing something or doing something wrong.
The plot has 7 slightly raised beds which has some bootiful top soil in it however it's hidden under bind weed and alsorts. Tonight we ripped out a lot of the grass in it and anything else we could pull up whole by hand. We then ook a fork to it and dug up what we couldn't pull up. In those two beds I am now stuck with loads and loads of bits of root. I sat for a bit and sieved but noticed a lot of the bits of weed are still passing through the sieve.
Is sitting and picking each bit out my only option? Was there a better way in the first place that we should have done? We've another 5 of them to go so any advice if we've made a muck up if it would be very greatly received 😀
It's the same way I've always dug a flower bed at home but that just involved taking off the grass this seems like an impossible task to remove it. I didn't imagine it would be a 5 minute job by any means but really thought the sieve would do the job 😣
Thanks for reading
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