yves35 wrote:Hello,
it would be nice if didier (Did67) gives his opinion, if he goes through this ...
I don't know anything about it but in your bin, it does not protect against weeds (whose seeds can be brought by the wind, birds etc ...) but it is good for old people who have their backs in compote .It seems to me with the wood you put that there is a lot of carbon and relatively little nitrogen.
As for the degerbage that you want to remove if it works, thank you for giving a detailed feedback, I would forward it to the cafeterias and students who frequent the rue de la thirst and the surroundings of the Place St Anne in Rennes. They are asking
yves
Indeed it does not prevent weeds that come by seed but there are really very few and it is pulled out very easily by hand since the soil always remains loose.
there is good water retention as well.
Obviously, we must not let the weeds establish and multiply, otherwise we have gained nothing
Cultivating at ground level is a big problem for me with creeping and invasive plants: bindweed, cinquefoils, buttercups and to a lesser extent ground ivy.
or else we should do as the neighbors
land turned over and bare all year round. I refuse to do so.
The canopy by BRF does not work for weed control or you have to be on it all the time at the beginning and in the long run I think we have more invasive weeds? I have no possibility of having hay, never tried.
There remains the problem of the grassy alleys around the vegetable garden which are a perpetual reservoir of bindweed, cinquefoils, buttercups and ground ivy.
With a 30cm bin, placed on cardboard, the problem of weeds is solved from the start.
and it is pleasant to have less to bend down too and why not to garden sitting down.
The biggest mistake I did was wanting to add nitrogen with surface mowing
free weed seedlings! quickly mastered, fortunately.