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Anyone got experience of 'no-dig' on allotments? I have some black membrane which worked really well on less thuggish plants, but wondered how it copes with bindweed, nettles, brambles, etc? The no dig website says to dig out the brambles, but the nettles and bindweed are everywhere so this wouldn't be 'no-dig' at all!!
Just bear in mind that the "no-dig" method is a misleading name and entails at least as much work as the traditional digging method ... probably the main reason that its critics are so vocal!
QuoteJust bear in mind that the "no-dig" method is a misleading name and entails at least as much work as the traditional digging method ... probably the main reason that its critics are so vocal!Couldn't have put it better myself John!I dig and I add loads of manure every year and the quality of my soil is very good but not without all hard work I have put in over the years.
Each year ,if you turn over the soil, you will bring up viable seeds which will germinate. Note the appearance of poppies in sprayed fields where the cultivation has gone just a little deeper than average.