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[QUOTE="kingofnobbys, post: 1990392, member: 81934"] Finally a break in the wet weather , gardening lady here today and informs me my dozen of so spare bags of citrus and veg garden soil are probably no long "live" , so we've decided to put these on the 3 fallow beds , then to cover with thick black plastic for a few months to 1) kill off the couch grass and weeds 2) allow worms to get busy and spread the nutients through the soil under the plastic . Reckons it wont be so hot under the black plastic over winter that it'll cook the biotics s in the soil. And can probably get away without needing to apply "SLASHER" to kill off the weeds and couchgrass if we leave thick black plastic down for at least 3 months. Will leave the black plastic sheet in place ( held down by 1/2 thickness concrete bressor blocks ( each about 7.5kg , these look like [img]https://i.postimg.cc/9MLL8Cyx/screenshot-783.png[/img] plenty heavy enough to stop the plastic sheet being blown off over winter ( we get Tasman Cyclones over winter with gale force winds ) , will make it very quick and easy to lift the plastic sheet to inspect how things are progressing wrt killing off weeds and couchgrass too , much simpler than pinning the sheet down with SHADECLOTH FASTENERS SHADEFIX STRIPs ( fixed to the vertical surfaces on the top sleepers ) or 7X215MM S/S HIGH STRENGTH TENT PEG WIRES. The bressor blocks can later be repurposed to subdivide the three beds. I'll use the shadecloth fasteners that came with the plastic sheeting to fix some bird mesh to a removeable light weight frame to protect my berry plants from bats and birds for next season. Come end of winter ( August ) , we'll remove the plastic sheet, add fertilizer and lime as required to get pH right , remove any dormant couchgrass ryzones and runners, bomb with earth worms , remulch ( sugarcane mulch ) , subdivide to suit herbs and vegs , add dripper and weeper irrigation to suit , and by then should have herb and greens and tomato seedlings ready to transplant into the 3 beds and get them producing over spring and summer. [/QUOTE]
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