Soil improver

[gengis]

Hi I have just put 3 tonnes of soil improver on my plot do u recommend to fork this in or just leave it over winter as a top layer. I have a lot of bindweed do worried if I fork it will make the weeds worse. Thanks

[burnie]

What's your soil like underneath, if it's clay/heavy, I'd dig it in over the winter to aid drainage and get the soil ready for spring sowing/planting.

[gengis]

Yes it's very heavy think I will fork it in

[Snadger]

I would use it as a weed suppressing mulch. In fact I use all sorts of organic matter as a mulch and let the worms do the work for me.

[Snoop Puss]

^Ditto. I'd just fork it in in spring, nearer the time for planting, if necessary.

[Plot70]

I would have had the bind weed out with a double dig and suffocated it all under a trailer load of manure and then use the resulting material as a mulch or dig in.
I did this with about a cubic meter of couch grass roots with a near 100% success and a very good crop of squashes in plugs of top soil on the top.
The stuff looks almost like peat based compost now and I have two target beds to be improved with it.

[Leslie Simpson]

You can immediately mix it with the soil so that you have a ready mixture by spring. And in the spring, when the weeds come up, treat them with a special compound that destroys the weeds. You can use any of these https://homemakerguide.com/review/garden/. They are effective and safe. The weed is destroyed quickly and then destroyed. That is, the plants you planted will not die and will not be poisoned.

[peanut]

I'm a no dig gardener so I'd layer it on top and let the worms do the work.