Carpet removal?

[Alison]

We have banned carpets on our site.

Wish ours had

[Chestnut]

buried glass

Just discovered a whole load of sheet glass about a spade-depth down. It's almost as though someone's buried a greenhouse in the hope it would sprout and grow a few nice new ones!

Even with my best effort, I don't think I'm managing to pick all of it out as I dig -and sieving the soil would mean I'd have to dry it out undercover first, so could take a while…

I'm sure I'll be able to grow something in that corner (after all, the weeds managed this year!), but do I need to have cleared all the glass before I try to grow root veg there??

[Bigmallly]

It's gonna be a nightmare to get rid of all the glass. All you can do is be extra careful & remove pieces as you find them.

[Chestnut]

Thanks BM. I will be careful, and try to make sure I wear gloves without holes when I am working that area��

[Bigmallly]

It's a shame glass does not have magnetic properties.

[Muddy_Boots]

On my new plot after covering with thick black plastic sheets to kill the weeds, the third dig uncovered old carpet when I peeled the plastic back. The weeds had grown through it and hidden it, now they were dead it was obvious.

I took the opportunity of bonfire night to have a bonfire (even let off some rockets and had my own bonfire party), and used that to get rid of the carpet. As I had a load of wood and tree branches that I had cut down, wood left by the previous tennant and of course the carpets it was the perfect opportunity. Old carpets can have chemicals in them from any cleaning they had, carcogens and any manner of nasties so I decided incineration was the best option.

I cut the carpet up into strips with a sharp stanley knife so they were manageable as wet carpet weighs a ton. Then rolled them up and stacked then ready for the burn. Once the bonfire was a pile of red glowing embers I then added them one at a time ensuring each one had burnt fully.

Problem gone.