Autumn is coming, the leaves will soon be falling, but the weeds just keep on growing, eh? Never mind, if you have perennial weeds amongst your soft fruit, you can turn this to your advantage.
Nothing makes an allotment look scruffier than fruit bushes with couch grass, dandelions and dock growing under and between them. But these weeds don't just look unsightly, they are robbing your fruit of essential water and nutrients. Get rid of the weeds and the bushes will reward you with stronger growth and bumper crops.
Nothing makes an allotment look scruffier than fruit bushes with couch grass, dandelions and dock growing under and between them. But these weeds don't just look unsightly, they are robbing your fruit of essential water and nutrients. Get rid of the weeds and the bushes will reward you with stronger growth and bumper crops.
"I've tried!" we hear you wail - "I've dug them out but the roots are amongst the fruit and they just keep coming back!" The answer isn't hand-weeding (doomed to failure) but judicious use of the correct modern weedkiller. Glyphosate - available in many different brands but best-known as 'Round-Up' - only kills where it touches green leaf. This means you can wait till all the leaves have fallen, then water on your glyphosate all over the couch and dandelions. They will die and the bushes be unharmed.
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For more about this solution to one of life's more annoying problems, click here.
Got a problem? Try our advice pages and see if we have the answer. Try the FRUIT & VEG A-Z, and the ADSVICE & INFORMATION pages for other topics. Doing well? Send us your tips for success! They will be included in our advice so we can all benefit.
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