Digging New Beds

[Nicola.P]

I don't have the room to compost it all. I have done 2 beds and so far 6 sackfulls of roots with another 3 beds to go, not including the paths, my plot is too small to.store that many bags and my compost bins aren't that big. The soil level will soon come back up again when I start adding manure/ compost to it.

After endless painful hours on hands and knees getting it all out piece by piece the last thing I intend to do is spread it all back on with a risk that some of it is still alive. Sorry but that stuff is going.

[Coopers]

Apologies as some of this may already have been said. But had to write something. This sounds exactly like my plot I've now had for over a year. I choose this plot over others as it was a blank canvas and it to hadn't been used for around a year.

What i did was mapped out two strips 3 ft by 20ft then with a fork took the top level of grass up and filled two pallet made compost bins. I then covered all this grass with thick plastic sheeting and a year later its broken down nicely to use on the plot.

However now i had removed the top level of grass i went the whole way through the strip with a fork pulling out all the weeds and bagging them up to take home. It was hard work, but i never realised how relaxing this would be.

For the first year i used just these two strips and covered the rest of the plot to attempt to kill weeds off.

Now im entering a new year i have made a bunch of new strips to supplement the first two.

Goodluck its great fun