An old story, but still a sad one

[grawrc]

Couch grass between plots is a real pain. My neighbour takes the top of weeds but I dig them out so the couch grass roots on his side are always creeping through to mine. Along the fence between us is the only place I use  weedkiller to try and stop the couch grass spreading through. Impossible to get it out under the wire fence - it just grows through.

Both my plot neighbours are really nice. One has a beautiful, well-tended plot that everyone admires. The other one never quite gets there. Most of his plot  is great but there are some wild areas.

This year though lots of our plots are looking a bit messy. People haven't been coming so much because of the rotten weather.

[cornykev]

I'm still surrounded by a jungle, I try and throw anything I can get my hands on to cover the edges, as our council bloke likes to pop in here for a gander maybe it will be sorted soon, all the best Graham.   

[Larkshall]

Couch Grass, known as "Twitch" in the East Anglian Fens.

My father bought our land in 1939 and it was covered in twitch, being heavy clay. He set about digging off the top spit and stacking it in block about 4ft high to rot down. The resulting loam was then spread over the land two years later. It's the only sure way of killing it (barring poisoning the land). It has to be covered to at least 9" to kill it.