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There are ways of lessening the effect of the weed , although I don't think it competes with your crop much, more untidy than anything. I will have to swear in this sentence, sorry. But one of the best ways is to [spoiler]double dig[/spoiler] and take out all of the root you can find. Unfortunatley a lot of the 'something for nothing' brigade are taking on allotments to use the no dig method. After they fail to grow anything they give up and somebody else has the unenviable task of getting the allotment up to scratch again.Even the peasant on his land in the third world countries know that you have to dig the soil to plant and get rid of all the nasties he doesn't want. But as we can just pop down the supermarket when it all goes tits up. The peasant would starve.Anyway regular digging and hoeing will get rid of alot of it and sort the other weeds out as well
It doesn't like hoeing, it loves weed suppressant membrane.